IPS Packages

An IPS package is defined by a text file called a manifest. A package manifest describes package actions in a defined format of key/value pairs and possibly a data payload. Package actions include files, directories, links, drivers, dependencies, groups, users, and license information. Package actions represent the installable objects of a package. Actions called set actions define package metadata such as classification, summary, and description.

You can search for packages by specifying package actions and action keys. See Package Content: Actions in Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle Solaris 11.4 or the pkg(7) man page for descriptions of package actions.

Constraint packages and group packages do not deliver content such as files. Constraint and group packages specify dependencies that help you install sets of related packages.