hi. i've installed a sparse zone on omnios and later on installed nginx into the global zone. now i can't see the service for nginx in the sparse zone. what do i have to do?

related question: i wasn't able to install nginx in the sparse zone directly, due to files listed in a exclude list. is there a recommended way to do this?

You should be able to install nginx into the sparse zone, that's the kind of intended use case.

Do you have the output?

Generally I don't install many packages in the GZ at all

andyf that was my plan, just a moment, i will send the output.

You have to be generally careful with sparse zones because they don't have their own `/usr` for example, but things like `nginx` should install under `/opt`

and if not, we've got it wrong

It isn't obvious, but that means you need to install library/libxslt in the GZ

It looks like a warning too, so nginx should have been installed

should be the nginx from the extras repository. this is a 151038 lts that was freshly upgraded to 151046. didnt run nginx before and the zone was created after the upgrade

i have installed libxslt in the gz after i saw the warning, but it  didn't disappear. nor is nginx installed in the sparse zone.

as@kvm2:~$ pfexec pkg install library/libxslt

Für dieses Abbild sind keine Updates erforderlich.

What do you get for `pkg property exclude-policy`?

(in the zone)

root@reproxy:~# pkg property exclude-policy

PROPERTY       VALUE

exclude-policy reject

root@reproxy:~#

nothing?

Ok, it's set to reject, let's change that

pkg set-property exclude-policy ignore

Then try again to install nginx in the zone, and add `-v`, so `pkg install -v nginx`

I'm surprised if the default is still reject, we should probably change that.

(I thought we had)

looks good to me?

Yes, and `svcs nginx` should hopefully show the service now

indeed it does :) can i safely remove the nginx install on the gz?

Yes you can

thank you very much!

and you can also do `pkg list -rM` to see if it pulled in anything else for you, although you'll need to keep them if they are core packages from /usr

That shows packages which were automatically installed, and are removable (as in, have no dependents)

ooce/server/nginx-common (extra.omnios)           1.0.0-151046.0             i--

(is one of them)

I'd probably remove that too in the GZ

i guess openssl i there to stay?

is*

it just adds a user I think, but might as well clean it up

great. thank you again :)

Plain openssl versus openssl-3? It is just a simple package that pulls in the real openssl-3 so it does no harm.

You're welcome

I'll take a look at why it defaulted to reject

It isn't supposed to - github.com/omniosorg/pkg5/blob/mast…src/brand/sparse/pkgcreatezone#L181

i used zadm to create the zone. but that shouldn't make a difference?

(0.14.3)

It just uses zoneadm to do that. I can try and replicate over the weekend anyway.