Changing Package Metadata

In the following example, the original pkg.summary value is changed to be “IPS has lots of features.” The package is downloaded using the --raw option of pkgrecv. By default, only the newest version of the package is downloaded. The package is then republished to a new repository.

$ mkdir republish; cd republish
$ pkgrecv -d . --raw -s http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release package/pkg
$ cd package* # The package name contains a '/' and is url-encoded.
$ cd *
$ cat > fix-pkg
# Change the value of pkg.summary
<transform set name=pkg.summary -> edit value '.*' "IPS has lots of features">
# Delete any signature actions
<transform signature -> drop>
# Remove the time stamp from the fmri so that the new package gets a new time stamp
<transform set name=pkg.fmri -> edit value ":20.+" "">
^D
$ pkgmogrify manifest fix-pkg > new-manifest
$ pkgrepo create ./mypkg
$ pkgsend -s ./mypkg publish -d . new-manifest