Building your own EON ZFS NAS binary kit

If you wish to build your own binary kit discussed here, a working SXCE opensolaris system and the matching EON snv_xxx DVD/iso are needed. So for eon-0.592-119-xxx-xxx.iso one would need the snv_119 dvd/iso. The current binary kit is built using the following package list bin-pkg.list

SUNWopenssl-commands
SUNWwgetu
SUNWless
SUNWzip
SUNWunzip
SUNWtop
SUNWpowertop
# rmformat + dep
SUNWsmedia
SUNWrmvolmgr
# 7z + dep
SUNWlibC
SUNWbzip
SUNWp7zip
# scanpci
SUNWpciaccess

Then using the script binpkg.sh, custom binaries can be added.

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
LOC=`pwd`
CDROM=/cdrom/cdrom0
PROD=$CDROM/Solaris_11/Product
BINKIT=/tmp/binkit
LIST=$LOC/bin-pkg.list

[ "X$1" != "X" ] && LIST=$1
for pkg in `grep -v "^#" $LIST`
do
cd $PROD ; pkgadd -d . -R $BINKIT $pkg
#sleep 5
done

Finally tar-ing and gzip-ing the (bin, sbin, lib, etc, share) directories in /tmp/binkit/usr and uploading them to /pool you have a working recipe for adding binaries from SXCE packages. Of course, this same method and package list will work using the IPS method but it would also add all the dependencies making it much larger. My main issue with IPS is not being able to override installing dependencies when using IPS to install packages.

There are limitations with packages that rely on isaexec to fork the respective matching 32 or 64-bit versions of the binary because you cannot hard link across different partitions. The workaround for now is to symlink the binary to the matching i86(32-bit).

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s ./i86/top top
ln -s ./i86/powertop powertop

or amd64(64-bit) version

ln -s ./amd64/top top
ln -s ./amd64/powertop powertop