Install only in global zone

If you have several zones on your machine then you might not want to install all packages into all zones. User tools like StarOffice are mostly only needed in the global zone.

pkgadd -G

will do the trick.

Two ways a pkg can be installed in the global zone only.

a) SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false
SUNW_PKG_THISZONE=true

b) SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false
SUNW_PKG_THISZONE=false
# pkgadd was run with -G


Trolling though the installed pkginfo files will give you (a), but
not (b). What you're probably looking for is
/var/sadm/install/gz-only-packages. That's a private interface though.





For Blastwave packages one can set the environment variable ADMINFLAG=' -G'
(Looks however that this is also passed to pkgrm which bails out. Have to check this...)
Looks like PKGADDFLAGS=-G is another way. Will check....