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Application Packaging Developer's Guide

Customizing the Format of the pkginfo Display

You can get a pkginfo display in any of three formats: short, extracted, and long.

The short format is the default. It shows only the category, package abbreviation, and full package name, as shown in The Default pkginfo Display.

The extracted format shows the package abbreviation, package name, package architecture (if available), and package version (if available). Use the -x option to request the extracted format as shown in the next example. 


$ pkginfo -x
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SUNWipc         Interprocess Communications
                (sparc) 11.8.0,REV=1999.08.20.12.37
SUNWisolc       XSH4 conversion for ISO Latin character sets
                (sparc) 1.0,REV=1999.07.10.10.10
SUNWkcspf       KCMS Optional Profiles
                (sparc) 1.1.2,REV=1.5
SUNWkcspg       KCMS Programmers Environment
                (sparc) 1.1.2,REV=1.5
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Using the -l option produces a display in the long format showing all of the available information about a package, as in the following example. 


$ pkginfo -l SUNWcadap
   PKGINST:  SUNWcadap
      NAME:  Chip designers need CAD application software to
design abc chips.  Runs only on xyz hardware and is installed
in the usr partition.
  CATEGORY:  system
      ARCH:  SPARC
   VERSION:  release 1.0
   BASEDIR:  /opt
    PSTAMP:  system980706083849
  INSTDATE:  Jul 7 1999 09:58
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:     13 installed pathnames
                 6 directories
                 3 executables
              3121 blocks used (approx)
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