Spec File Build Procedure

Step 1:

 Install the JDS cbe from http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/cbe/ and run cbe-install

$ cd /opt
$ wget http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/cbe/jds-cbe-1.6.2-i386.tar.bz2
$ bzcat /tmp/jdscbe.tar.bz2 | tar -xf -
$ cd jdscbe-1.6.2; ./cbe-install 

Step 2:

 Make your spec file. The Fedora project publishes a collection of them, props to them for that. OpenSolaris and Fedora are quite different, so the utility might be limited. You may find the spec-files-extra repository to be a much more useful resource for templates. You may need to either strip out or satisfy the %include directives, since they're not really relevant to files not related to SFE. The sections should be pretty self-explanatory, and the people on the mailing lists and irc channels are helpful if you don't understand something. There is a blank template you can use here"

Step 3:

 Set up your environment, and build with pkgtool ( Let's use Drupal as an example)

$ . /opt/jdsbld/bin/env.sh
$ pkgtool build ~--download drupal.spec

 Test, then uninstall the SysVR4 package

$ pfexec pkgrm drupal

Step 4:

 make a local package repo:

$ pfexec svccfg -s pkg/server "setprop pkg/port=10000"
$ pfexec svcadm refresh pkg/server
$ pfexec svcadm enable pkg/server
$ pfexec svcadm restart pkg/server

 and add your local repo as a pkg(5) authority

$ pfexec pkg set-authority -O http://localhost:10000 localhost

Step 5:

 add your package to your local repo.

$ eval `pkgsend open drupal@6.8`
$ pkgsend import /export/home/johns/packages/PKGS/drupal/
$ pkgsend close

 and install your package with pkg(1) and test again.

$ pfexec pkg install drupal

Step 6:

 Everything work? License in the .spec file is kosher? Excellent. You're ready to submit your package to the source juicer or alternately sw-porters-discuss@opensolaris.org ( it's set to reject non-subscribers, so you'll need to subscribe )