NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OPERANDS | EXIT STATUS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES
pkgmk produces an installable package to be used as input to the pkgadd(1M) command. The package contents will be in directory structure format.
The command uses the package prototype(4) file as input and creates a pkgmap(4) file. The contents for each entry in the prototype file is copied to the appropriate output location. Information concerning the contents (checksum, file size, modification date) is computed and stored in the pkgmap file, along with attribute information specified in the prototype file.
The following options are supported:
Overwrite the same instance; package instance will be overwritten if it already exists.
Override the architecture information provided in the pkginfo(4) file with arch.
Prepend the indicated base_src_dir to locate relocatable objects on the source machine.
Create the package on device. device can be an absolute directory pathname or the identifiers for a floppy disk or removable disk (for example, /dev/diskette). The default device is the installation spool directory (/var/spool/pkg).
Use the file prototype as input to the command. The default prototype filename is [Pp]rototype.
Specify the maximum size in 512 byte blocks of the output device as limit. By default, if the output file is a directory or a mountable device, pkgmk will employ the df(1M) command to dynamically calculate the amount of available space on the output device. This option is useful in conjunction with pkgtrans(1) to create a package with a datastream format.
Override the production stamp definition in the pkginfo(4) file with pstamp.
Ignore destination paths in the prototype(4) file. Instead, use the indicated root_path with the source pathname appended to locate objects on the source machine, using a comma (,) as the separator for the path elements.
Override the version information provided in the pkginfo(4) file with version.
Place the indicated variable in the packaging environment. (See prototype(4) for definitions of variable specifications.)
The following operand is supported:
A package designation by its instance. An instance can be the package abbreviation or a specific instance (for example, inst.1 or inst.2). All instances of a package can be requested by inst.*. The asterisk character (*) is a special character to some shells and may need to be escaped. In the C-Shell, "*" must be surrounded by single quotes (') or preceded by a backslash (\).
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Availability | SUNWcsu |
pkgparam(1), pkgproto(1), pkgtrans(1), uname(1), df(1M), pkgadd(1M), pkginfo(4), pkgmap(4), prototype(4), attributes(5)
Architecture information is provided on the command line with the -a option or in the prototype(4) file. If no architecture information is supplied, pkgmk uses the output of uname -m (see uname(1)).
Version information is provided on the command line with the -v option or in the pkginfo(4) file. If no version information is supplied, a default based on the current date will be provided.
Command line definitions for both architecture and version override the prototype(4) definitions.
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OPERANDS | EXIT STATUS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES