HOWTO create an IPS package for mencoder

HOWTO create an IPS package for the Zabbix client.

Besides several Linux VMs, I am using Solaris 11 for some of my home-tinkering systems. After an undetected three day outage of my mail server, I decided to install a monitoring solution for my systems.

Unwilling to go through the configure, make, make install triple jump every time I install a system, I set out to create a local IPS repository to serve my needs (and packages).

Part III: Creating the Zabbix-Client IPS package.

HOWTO create a simple IPS package.

Besides several Linux VMs, I am using Solaris 11 for some of my home-tinkering systems. After an undetected three day outage of my mail server, I decided to install a monitoring solution for my systems.

Unwilling to go through the configure, make, make install triple jump every time I install a system, I set out to create a local IPS repository to serve my needs (and packages).

Part II: Creating a simple IPS package.

HOWTO setup the Solaris IPS server.

Besides several Linux VMs, I am using Solaris 11 for some of my home-tinkering systems. After an undetected three day outage of my mail server, I decided to install a monitoring solution for my systems.

Unwilling to go through the configure, make, make install triple jump every time I install a system, I set out to create a local IPS repository to serve my needs (and packages).

Part I: Set up the IPS server.

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