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Application Packaging Developer's Guide
Book Information
Preface
Who Should Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Related Books
Ordering Sun Documents
What Typographic Changes Mean
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
1. Designing a Package
Where to Find Packaging Tasks
What Are Packages?
Package Components
Things to Think About Before Building a Package
Packaging Commands, Files, and Scripts
2. Building a Package
The Process of Building a Package Task Map
Package Environment Variables
Creating a pkginfo File
Organizing a Package's Contents
Creating a prototype File
Building a Package
3. Enhancing the Functionality of a Package
Creating Information Files and Installation Scripts Task Map
Creating Information Files
Creating Installation Scripts
4. Verifying and Transferring a Package
Verifying and Transferring a Package Task Map
Installing Software Packages
Verifying the Integrity of a Package
Displaying Additional Information About Installed Packages
Removing a Package
Transferring a Package to a Distribution Medium
5. Package Creation Case Studies
Soliciting Input From the Administrator
Creating a File at Installation and Saving It During Removal
Defining Package Compatibilities and Dependencies
Modifying a File Using Standard Classes and Class Action Scripts
Modifying a File Using the sed Class and a postinstall Script
Modifying a File Using the build Class
Modifying crontab Files During Installation
Installing and Removing a Driver With Procedure Scripts
Installing a Driver Using the sed Class and Procedure Scripts
6. Advanced Package Creation Techniques
Specifying the Base Directory
Accommodating Relocation
Supporting Relocation in a Heterogeneous Environment
Making Packages Installable Remotely
Patching Packages
Upgrading Packages
Glossary
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