Solaris 10 5/09 Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation)
Keywords for the Archive Identification Section
The following tables describe the keywords for use in the archive identification
section and the values you can define for them.
Every section uses the keywords in Table 5–3 to delimit each section.
Table 5–3 Archive Identification
Section Keywords: General Keywords
Keywords
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Value Definitions
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Value
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Required
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section_begin
section_end
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These keywords are used to delimit sections in the archive and are not
limited exclusively to the archive identification section. For a description
of these keywords, see General Keywords.
|
Text
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Yes
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The following keywords, used in the archive-identification section,
describe the contents of the archive files section.
Table 5–4 Archive Identification
Section Keywords: Contents of Archive Files Section
Keywords
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Value Definitions
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Value
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Required
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archive_id (optional)
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This keyword uniquely describes the contents of the archive. This
value is used by the installation software only to validate the contents of
the archive during archive installation. If the keyword is not present, no
integrity check is performed.
For example, the archive_id keyword might be FlAsH-ARcHive-2.0.
|
Text
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No
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files_archived_method
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This keyword describes the archive method that is used in the files
section.
-
If this keyword is not present, the files section is assumed
to be in cpio format with ASCII headers. This format
is the cpio -c option.
-
If this keyword is present, it has one of
the following values:
-
cpio – The archive format in the
files section is cpio with ASCII headers.
-
pax – The archive format in the files
section is pax with extended tar interchange
format. The pax utility enables archiving and extracting
files that are greater than 4 GB.
If the files_compressed_method is present, the compression
method is applied to the archive file that is created by the archive method.
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Text
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No
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files_archived_size
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This keyword value is the size of the archived files section in bytes.
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Numeric
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No
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files_compress_method
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This keyword describes the compression algorithm that is used on the
files section.
-
If the keyword is present, it can have one of the following
values.
-
If this keyword is not present, the archive files section
is assumed to be uncompressed.
The compression method that is indicated by this keyword is applied
to the archive file created by the archive method indicated by the files_archived_method keyword.
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Text
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No
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files_unarchived_size
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This keyword defines the cumulative size in bytes of the extracted archive.
The value is used for file-system size verification.
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Numeric
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No
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The following keywords provide descriptive information about the entire
archive. These keywords are generally used to assist you in archive selection
and to aid in archive management. These keywords are all optional and are
used to help you to distinguish between individual archives. You use options
for the flarcreate command to include these keywords. For
details, see Example 3–9.
Table 5–5 Archive Identification
Section Keywords: User Describes the Archive
Keywords
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Value Definitions
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Value
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Required
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creation_date
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This keyword value is a textual timestamp that represents the time that
you created the archive.
-
You can use the flarcreate command with
the -i option to create the date.
-
If you do not specify a creation date with the flarcreate command, the default date is set in Greenwich mean time (GMT).
-
The value must be in ISO-8601 complete basic calendar format
without the time designator (ISO-8601,§5.4.1(a)). The format is CCYYMMDDhhmmss. For example, 20000131221409 represents January
31, 2000, 10:14:09 p.m.
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Text
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No
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creation_master
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This keyword value is the name of the master system you used to create
the archive. You can use the flarcreate -m option
to create this value. If you do not specify a value, the value is taken from
the uname -n command.
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Text
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No
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content_name
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This keyword identifies the archive. The value is generated from the flarcreate -n option. Follow these guidelines when
you create this value:
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Text
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Yes
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content_type
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This keyword value specifies a category for the archive. You use the flarcreate -T option to generate the value.
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Text
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No
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content_description
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The keyword value describes the contents of the archive. The value
of this keyword has no length limit. You use the flarcreate -E option to create this value.
|
Text
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No
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content_author
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This keyword value identifies the creator of the archive. You use the flarcreate-a option to create this value. Suggested
values include the full name of the creator and the creator's email address.
|
Text
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No
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content_architectures
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This keyword value is a comma-separated list of the kernel architectures
that the archive supports.
-
If the keyword is present, the installation software validates
the kernel architecture of the clone system against the list of architectures
that the archive supports. The installation fails if the archive does not
support the kernel architecture of the clone system.
-
If the keyword is not present, the installation software
does not validate the architecture of the clone system.
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Text list
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No
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The following keywords also describe the entire archive. By default,
the values are filled in by uname when the flash archive
is created. If you create a flash archive in which the root directory is
not /, the archive software inserts the string UNKNOWN
for the keywords. The exceptions are the creation_node, creation_release, and creation_os_name keywords.
-
For creation_node, the software uses the
contents of the nodename file.
-
For creation_release and creation_os_name, the software attempts to use the contents of root directory /var/sadm/system/admin/INST_RELEASE. If the software is unsuccessful
in reading this file, it assigns the value UNKNOWN.
Regardless of their sources, you cannot override the values of these
keywords.
Table 5–6 Archive Identification Section
Keywords: Software Describes the Archive
Keyword
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Value
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creation_node
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The return from uname -n
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creation_hardware_class
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The return from uname -m
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creation_platform
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The return from uname -i
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creation_processor
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The return from uname -p
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creation_release
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The return from uname -r
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creation_os_name
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The return from uname -s
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creation_os_version
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The return from uname -v
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