SVR4 Packaging

About SVR4 Packaging

This project is devoted to the enhancement of the legacy packaging tools used in the Solaris product.  The SVR4 packaging commands are derived from the original System V release 4 project and have been used to install and manage software on the system since Solaris 2.0.  

The source for the SVR4 Packaging code can be found here:

The commands are in [svr4pkg][] and the library is under [libpkg][]

Other Packaging tools for download and early use

This section will list any early access tools that are made available to the community. 

• Solaris Package Companion - Examine relationships between Solaris metaclusters, clusters, and packages.
• Package dependency checker
  This tool produces a list of packages which the package being checked depends on, in the order to install, which are not currently part of the system. This is a tar file which contains: pkgdeps(sparc) and pkgdepx(x86) binaries.

Usage:

Intel - pkgdepx <system_root or -> <directory_with_packages> package_name  
Sparc - pkgdeps <system_root or -> <directory_with_packages> package_name

"-" as a system root means check dependancy in the directory only do not check your system.

Examples for use:

pkgdeps - Solaris_11/Product SUNWluu
SUNWcar SUNWcakr SUNWkvm SUNWcsr SUNWckr SUNWcnetr SUNWcsu SUNWcsl SUNWcsd SUNWadmr SUNWadmlib-sysid SUNWperl584core SUNWmdr SUNWadmfr SUNWmdu SUNWadmap SUNWperl584usr SUNWadmc SUNWesu SUNWadmfw SUNWlibC SUNWlur SUNWluu

pkgdepx - Solaris_11/Product SUNWhea
SUNWcar SUNWcakr SUNWkvm SUNWcsr SUNWckr SUNWcnetr SUNWcsu SUNWcsl SUNWcsd SUNWhea

These are for use on the Nevada release only.

download pkgdep utilities