Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4

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Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4

November 2020

Describes how to use the Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS) feature to package software to be installed and updated on Oracle Solaris 11.4 systems.

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Using This Documentation
- Product Documentation Library
- Feedback
1 IPS Design Goals, Concepts, and Terminology
2 Packaging Software With IPS
3 Specifying Package Dependencies
- Dependency Types
- Constraints and Freezing
4 Allowing Variations
- Mutually Exclusive Software Components
- Optional Software Components
5 Modifying Package Manifests Programmatically
6 Automating System Change as Part of Package Operations
7 Modifying Packages
8 Signing IPS Packages
9 Handling Non-Global Zones
- Packaging Considerations for Non-Global Zones
  - Does the Package Cross the Global, Non-Global Zone Boundary?
  - How Much of a Package Should Be Installed in a Non-Global Zone?
- Troubleshooting Package Installations in Non-Global Zones
  - Packages that Have Parent Dependencies on Themselves
  - Packages that Do Not Have Parent Dependencies on Themselves
Appendix A Classifying Packages
- Assigning Classifications
- Classification Values
Appendix B How IPS Is Used To Package the Oracle Solaris OS

Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle® Solaris 11.4

Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle® Solaris 11.4

November 2020

Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4

Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4