Preface
The Application Packaging Developer's Guide provides step-by-step instructions and relevant background information for designing, building, and verifying packages. This guide also includes information on and examples of advanced techniques that you may find helpful during the package creation process.
Who Should Use This Book
This book is intended for application developers whose responsibilities include designing and building packages.
Though much of the book is directed towards novice package developers, it also contains information useful to more experienced package developers.
Note - The Solaris operating environment runs on two types of hardware, or platforms--SPARC and IA. The Solaris operating environment runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit address spaces. The information in this document pertains to both platforms and address spaces unless called out in a special chapter, section, note, bullet, figure, table, example, or code example.
How This Book Is Organized
The following table describes the chapters in this book.
Chapter Name | Chapter Description |
|---|---|
Describes package components, package design criteria, and related commands, files, and scripts. | |
Describes the process and required tasks for building a package, and provides step-by-step instructions for each task. | |
Describes how to add optional features to a package, and provides step-by-step instructions for each. | |
Describes how to verify the integrity of a package and transfer a package to a distribution medium. | |
Provides case studies for creating packages. | |
Describes various advanced package creation techniques. | |
Contains a list of words and phrases found in this book and their definitions |
Related Books
The following documentation, available through retail book sellers, may provide additional background information on building System V packages.
System V Application Binary Interface
System V Application Binary Interface - SPARC Processor Supplement
System V Application Binary Interface - Intel386 Processor Supplement
Accessing Sun Documentation Online
The docs.sun.comSM Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com.
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Table P-1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface or Symbol | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 | The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output | Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 | What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output | machine_name% su Password: |
AaBbCc123 | Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value | To delete a file, type rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 | Book titles, new words, or terms, or words to be emphasized. | Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this. |
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P-2 Shell Prompts
Shell | Prompt |
|---|---|
| C shell prompt | machine_name% |
| C shell superuser prompt | machine_name# |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt | $ |
| Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt | # |