Listing All Packages in a Group Package

The text installer and the default AI manifest in an Automated Installer installation install the solaris-large-server group package. The default installation manifest for non-global zones installs the solaris-small-server group package. The solaris-minimal-server group package installs the minimal supported set of packages required to run Oracle Solaris.

You can use the following search form to display the set of packages that is included in the specified group package.

Note:

This package list does not include every package that is installed when you install the group package. Dependencies of the packages in this list will also be installed, and dependencies of those dependencies.

$ pkg search -o type,fmri \*/solaris-minimal-server:depend::
TYPE    FMRI
require developer/debug/mdb
require editor/vim/vim-core
require group/system/solaris-core-platform
group   network/ping
group   network/ssh
require package/pkg
require release/name
require release/notices
group   service/network/ssh
require shell/bash
require shell/ksh93
group   shell/tcsh
group   shell/zsh
require system/core-os
require system/library/platform
group   system/network
group   system/rsyslog

The depend query field matches depend actions in the package. The -o option displays the values of the type and fmri attributes of the depend action. Recall that group packages do not specify file system content; group packages specify other packages that are part of the group. See Group Packages for more information about group packages.

The pkg search command is returning the value of an attribute of an action in a specified package. In this example, that attribute value is a package name. The number of results from this command can be larger than the number of the results from the similar pkg contents command shown in Listing All Installable Packages in a Group Package because these search results include the names of all packages that are named in depend actions of type group in the specified package, not just installable packages. For example, package variants and facets might be included that are not installable in this image. To see this difference, try both examples with the solaris-large-server package.