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Application Packaging Developer's Guide Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
The Process of Building a Package (Task Map)
General Rules on Using Environment Variables
Package Environment Variables Summary
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)
Organizing a Package's Contents
How to Organize a Package's Contents
Collectively Relocatable Objects
Individually Relocatable Objects
A Brief Word on an Object's Source and Destination Locations
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
Setting Default Values for the mode, owner, and group Fields
Providing a Search Path for the pkgmk Command
How to Create a prototype File by Using the pkgproto Command
Using the Simplest pkgmk Command
3. Enhancing the Functionality of a Package (Tasks)
4. Verifying and Transferring a Package
5. Case Studies of Package Creation
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.