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Application Packaging Developer's Guide     Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10
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Preface

1.  Designing a Package

2.  Building a Package

The Process of Building a Package (Task Map)

Package Environment Variables

General Rules on Using Environment Variables

Package Environment Variables Summary

Creating a pkginfo File

Defining a Package Instance

Defining a Package Abbreviation (PKG)

Specifying a Package Architecture (ARCH)

Specifying a Package Instruction Set Architecture (SUNW_ISA)

Specifying a Package Version (VERSION)

Defining a Package Name (NAME)

Defining a Package Category (CATEGORY)

How to Create a pkginfo File

Organizing a Package's Contents

How to Organize a Package's Contents

Creating a prototype File

Format of the prototype File

The ftype Field

The class Field

The path Field

Collectively Relocatable Objects

Individually Relocatable Objects

Parametric Path Names

A Brief Word on an Object's Source and Destination Locations

The mode Field

The owner Field

The group Field

Creating a prototype File From Scratch

Example--Creating a prototype File With the pkgproto Command

Fine-Tuning a prototype File Created With the pkgproto Command

Creating Object Entries With File Types v, e, x, and i

Using Multiple Class Definitions

Example--Fine-Tuning a prototype File Created Using the pkgproto Command

Adding Functionality to a prototype File

Defining Additional Objects to Be Created at Install Time

Creating Links at Install Time

Distributing Packages Over Multiple Volumes

Nesting prototype Files

Setting Default Values for the mode, owner, and group Fields

Providing a Search Path for the pkgmk Command

Setting Environment Variables

How to Create a prototype File by Using the pkgproto Command

Building a Package

Using the Simplest pkgmk Command

The pkgmap File

How to Build a Package

3.  Enhancing the Functionality of a Package (Tasks)

4.  Verifying and Transferring a Package

5.  Case Studies of Package Creation

6.  Advanced Techniques for Creating Packages

Glossary

Index

Chapter 2

Building a Package

This chapter describes the process and the tasks involved in building a package. Some of these tasks are required. Some of these tasks are optional. The required tasks are discussed in detail in this chapter. For information on the optional tasks, which enable you to add more features to your package, see Chapter 3, Enhancing the Functionality of a Package (Tasks) and Chapter 6, Advanced Techniques for Creating Packages.

This is a list of the information in this chapter.