IPS Best Practices for Layered Distros

Welcome to the Update Center 2 project's Image Packaging System best practices for layered distributions!

If you're playing one of the following roles and are interested in using the open source Image Packaging System - aka the pkg(5) system - to package, deliver and maintain your layered software distributions, you'll benefit from this site:

Project Leads: People making decisions about how to deliver and sustain their binary distributions
Package Maintainers: People creating and maintaining packages
Repository Maintainers: People maintaining the associated package repositories
Install Bundle Assemblers: People assembling and maintaining download and install bundles

First, check out the Screencasts for quick introductions to the Update Center 2 project and the Image Packaging System.

OpenSolaris Developers

If you're interested in delivering packages for the OpenSolaris OS distribution, check out Contributing Packages information on OpenSolaris.org and the set of pkg(5) tools that are included in the OpenSolaris distribution.