OpenSolaris

Building pkgbase packages from the sources

 pkgbase uses the JDS build environment (a.k.a. JDS CBE). To build a pkgbase package,

1. install the latest JDS CBE for your platform
2. get the pkgbase spec files from subversion:

bash$ svn co svn+ssh://anon@svn.opensolaris.org/svn/pkgbase/spec-files/trunk pkgbase
A    pkgbase/include
A    pkgbase/base-specs
A    pkgbase/ChangeLog
A    pkgbase/patches
...

1. build a package using pkgtool:

bash$ cd pkgbase
bash$ pkgtool build ~--download OSOLsomething.spec
INFO: Copying %use'd or %include'd spec files to SPECS directory
INFO: Processing spec files
INFO: Finding sources
INFO: Downloading source http://some.site.net/something/something-1.2.3.tar.bz2
INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] OSOLsomething.spec (OSOLsomething)
INFO: OSOLsomething PASSED
INFO: Installing OSOLsomething
Summary:
                         package |      status | details
~---------------------------------+~-------------+~-------------------------------
                   OSOLsomething |      PASSED | 

 If the build fails, check /tmp/OSOLsomething.log for details. You can also ask the experts or report a bug.

Hints

• If your system is behind a firewall, you will need to set the http_proxy / ftp_proxy environment variables for automatic source downloads. See man -M /usr/sfw/man wget for details.
• Most packages require other packages to be installed. If you don't have the dependent packages installed, pkgtool will give you an error message like this:

bash$ pkgtool build ~--download SFEaterm.spec 
INFO: Copying %use'd or %include'd spec files to SPECS directory
INFO: Processing spec files
WARNING: skipping package SFEaterm: required package SFEafterstep not installed
WARNING: and no spec file specified on the command line provides it
WARNING: skipping package SFEaterm: required package SFEafterstep-devel not installed
WARNING: and no spec file specified on the command line provides it
Summary:
                         package |      status | details
~---------------------------------+~-------------+~-------------------------------
                        SFEaterm |  DEP_FAILED | Dependency check failed

 In this example, you need to build SFEafterstep.spec before you can build SFEaterm.spec. You can build them one by one, or list multiple spec files on the command line:

bash$ pkgtool build ~--download SFEaterm.spec SFEafterstep.spec

 pkgtool will determine the build order from the dependency information listed in the spec files.

• You can find more information about building spec files here:
  • pkgbuild home page
  • building jds page at opensolaris.org
  • building xfce page at opensolaris.org