Packaging your software applications

8. Creating the pkginfo file

The pkginfo(4) file establishes values for parameters that describe the package and is a required package component. The format for an entry in this file is:

   PARAM="value"

PARAM can be any of the 21 standard parameters described in the pkginfo(4) manual page. You can also create your own package parameters simply by assigning a value to them in this file. Your parameter names must begin with an uppercase letter followed by either upper or lowercase letters.

The following five parameters are required:

PKG (package abbreviation)
NAME (full package name)
ARCH (package architecture)
VERSION (package version)
CATEGORY (package category)

The CLASSES parameter dictates which classes are installed and the order of installation. Although the parameter is not required, no classes will be installed without it. Even if you have no class action scripts, the none class must be defined in the CLASSES parameter before objects belonging to that class will be installed.

NOTE: You can choose to define the value of CLASSES with a request script and not to deliver a value in the pkginfo(4) file.