Tips/Building Solaris Packages

Building Solaris Packages

This page has notes related to creating Solaris packages.

Sun has an excellent document - The Application Packaging Developer's Guide : [SunDoc:805-6338]

General example

1. install application in ${HOME}/MYapp
2. create pkg files in ${HOME}/build
3. cd ${HOME} && pkgproto ./MYapp > build/MYapp.proto
4. clean up & edit prototype file
5. cd ${HOME}/build && pkgmk -b ${HOME} -f MYapp.proto -d ../built
6. cd ${HOME}/built && pkgtrans -s . MYapp-version MYapp