Solaris Package Management

Proxy · 16-01-2014 09:23PM #1

I'm completely new to Solaris but i'm working on a project involving documenting package management in Unix. I need to figure out where, if at all, does Solaris store the local data of installed/available packages? dpkg and RPM store either a local textfile or a local database file that can be easily read in /var/lib/, but I can't find similar for Solaris. Any tips?

Thanks!

syklops · 16-01-2014 09:31PM

The RPM/dpkg/yum equivalent on solaris is called pkgadd.

You can find the man page here

Proxy · 16-01-2014 09:50PM

syklops wrote: »

The RPM/dpkg/yum equivalent on solaris is called pkgadd.

You can find the man page here

From the man page:

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/var/sadm/install/logs/ Location where pkgadd logs an instance of software installation.

I think this is what I was looking for, thanks!

duffman85 · 16-01-2014 10:07PM

Solaris 10 keeps track of packages in /var/sadm/pkg/<Package Name>

If you dig down into /var/sadm/pkg/<Package Name>/save/pspool/ directory you can see the pkginfo and pkgmap files which have the package details - revision,architecture etc. and the list of all the files installed by the package - pkgmap

Also, have a look at the pkginfo,pkgadd,pkgrm,pkgchk commands

opus · 17-01-2014 11:32AM

Wow that's a blast from the past, like the posters say above the 'pkginfo' command is your friend.

I don't remember there being anything like the 'yum list available' command though as Solaris didn't have any online sources or at least it didn't back in the day anyway

Giuseppe90 · 21-01-2014 01:13PM

Solaris 11 from what I have read has introduced IPS (Image Packaging System). Seems to be more down the line of YUM etc. although I have only briefly researched it myself.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/technologies/ips-323421.html

Solaris Package Management

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