Have you ever needed to rebuild a package already installed on a Solaris
host? Though it may seem to be a rare case, I've had to do this several
times in the past and have yet to find any clear information on it.
A recent instance was where a primary host had a piece of software
installed, though its peer did not. Since the software revision washost? Though it may seem to be a rare case, I've had to do this several
times in the past and have yet to find any clear information on it.
A recent instance was where a primary host had a piece of software
older, it was determined to be safer to use the same software revision.
Unfortunately, the only guaranteed location of that software was the
installed version on the primary host. The following details the process
involved for a simple package, wherein we have no care for any pre or
post install scripts, etc. While one could go about simply copying the
appropriate files over to the secondary host, by recreating the package,
we retain details such as file ownership, permissions, symlinks, and have
a clean means of install / deinstall for this and other hosts. For the
point of example, we'll use package SMCwget. The following steps were
performed on a Solaris 9, SPARC host, though the process should be the
same for any recent Solaris version or architecture. As an aside, the
details below are similar to 'Package Builds in Solaris':
http://troysunix.blogspot.com/2010/10/package-builds-in-solaris.html
which was based upon the notes of Steve Christensen and his work on
http://sunfreeware.com
Additionally, the package used in the examples below, SMCwget, is available
from sunfreeware.com thanks to Steve's time and efforts. Now back to the
package rebuild.
To start, create a directory in /tmp for holding our files, etc:
server [0] /usr/bin/mkdir /tmp/repkg
server [0] cd /tmp/repkg
Since the SMCwget package is already installed on 'server', use the
package database for information about the installed files:
server [0] /usr/sbin/pkgchk -l SMCwget | /usr/bin/awk '/^Pathname:/{print $2}' >> file_list
server [0] /usr/bin/cat file_list
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/wget
/usr/local/doc
/usr/local/doc/wget
/usr/local/doc/wget/AUTHORS
/usr/local/doc/wget/COPYING
/usr/local/doc/wget/ChangeLog
/usr/local/doc/wget/ChangeLog.README
/usr/local/doc/wget/INSTALL
/usr/local/doc/wget/MAILING-LIST
<snip...>
Now that we have our list of 'SMCwget' files, we need to create a usable
input file (prototype) for use by the package creation commands:
server [0] echo "i pkginfo=./pkginfo" >> prototype
server [0] /usr/bin/cat file_list | /usr/bin/pkgproto | /usr/bin/sed -e 's/\ \/usr\/local\//\ /g' >> prototype
server [0] /usr/bin/cat prototype
i pkginfo=./pkginfo
d none bin 0755 root bin
f none bin/wget 0755 root bin
d none doc 0755 root bin
d none doc/wget 0755 root bin
f none doc/wget/AUTHORS 0644 root bin
f none doc/wget/COPYING 0644 root bin
f none doc/wget/ChangeLog 0644 root bin
f none doc/wget/ChangeLog.README 0644 root bin
f none doc/wget/INSTALL 0644 root bin
f none doc/wget/MAILING-LIST 0644 root bin
<snip...>
Now we need to create the 'pkginfo' file which details various points of
information about the package, such as base install directory, vendor,
architecture, etc. Since one basically already exists on this host,
we'll copy and modify it:
server [0] /usr/bin/cp /var/sadm/pkg/SMCwget/pkginfo .
server [0] /usr/bin/cat pkginfo
CLASSES=none
BASEDIR=/usr/local
TZ=US/Eastern
SUNW_PKG_DIR=/var/tmp/dstreAAA6UayxC/SMCwget
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sadm/install/bin
OAMBASE=/usr/sadm/sysadm
PKG=SMCwget
NAME=wget
ARCH=sparc
VERSION=1.10.2
CATEGORY=application
VENDOR=Free Software Foundation
EMAIL=steve@smc.vnet.net
PSTAMP=Steve Christensen
PKGINST=SMCwget
PKGSAV=/var/sadm/pkg/SMCwget/save
INSTDATE=Mar 14 2007 09:45
We need to cut out some of the contents of the copied 'pkginfo' file and
quote the values contained. The only values that we need to retain are:
CLASSES, BASEDIR, PKG, NAME, ARCH, VERSION, CATEGORY, VENDOR,
EMAIL, PSTAMP
After editing, the file contents should appear as such:
CLASSES="none"
BASEDIR="/usr/local"
PKG="SMCwget"
NAME="wget"
ARCH="sparc"
VERSION="1.10.2"
CATEGORY="application"
VENDOR="Free Software Foundation"
EMAIL="steve@smc.vnet.net"
PSTAMP="Steve Christensen"
With the package now setup, lets begin creating it:
server [0] /usr/bin/pkgmk -r /usr/local
## Building pkgmap from package prototype file.
## Processing pkginfo file.
## Attempting to volumize 39 entries in pkgmap.
part 1 -- 3112 blocks, 43 entries
## Packaging one part.
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/pkgmap
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/pkginfo
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/bin/wget
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/AUTHORS
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/COPYING
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/ChangeLog
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/ChangeLog.README
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/INSTALL
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/MAILING-LIST
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/NEWS
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/PATCHES
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/README
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/README.checkout
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/TODO
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/ChangeLog
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/Makefile
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/Makefile.in
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/ansi2knr.1
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/fdl.texi
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/gpl.texi
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/sample.wgetrc
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/texi2pod.pl
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/texi2pod.pl.in
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/texinfo.tex
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/version.texi
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/wget.1
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/wget.info
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/wget.pod
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/doc/wget/doc/wget.texi
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/etc/wgetrc
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/info/wget.info
/var/spool/pkg/SMCwget/reloc/man/man1/wget.1
## Validating control scripts.
## Packaging complete.
The 'pkgmk' command above stages the package to /var/spool/pkg/SMCwget.
To build the package, cd to /var/spool/pkg and run 'pkgtrans':
server [0] /bin/ls
SMCwget
server [0] pkgtrans -s `pwd` /tmp/SMCwget-1.10.2
The following packages are available:
1 SMCwget wget
(sparc) 1.10.2
Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 1
Transferring <SMCwget> package instance
Our rebuilt SMCwget package is now available for use. The following is
just verification and cleanup of our work:
server [0] cd /tmp
server [0] /bin/ls
SMCwget-1.10.2 repkg
server [0] /usr/bin/head -3 SMCwget-1.10.2
# PaCkAgE DaTaStReAm
SMCwget 1 3112
# end of header
server [0] /usr/bin/gzip SMCwget-1.10.2
server [0] /usr/bin/rm -r repkg
server [0] /bin/ls
SMCwget-1.10.2.gz
