NAME

Solaris::Package - Perl module to obtain basic Solaris Package Info

SYNOPSIS

use Solaris::Package;

$x=Solaris::Package::new(-directory => "/tmp/install", -file => "SUNWm64.u");

DESCRIPTION

Solaris::Package is a class module that reads in the information from a pkginfo file for a Solaris package. It can be spawned from a Solaris::InstallDB object, or it can be used as a standalone object.

CONSTRUCTOR METHOD

$pkg=Solaris::Package::new(-directory => $dir, -file => $pkgDir);

The -directory arguement specifies what package directory to search in, the -file directory points to the directory name the package is in.

Optionally, you can specify a pointer to a Solaris::InstallDB object by using the -installDB arguement.

Two points to clarify:

This object only works on Solaris packages in the directory format, not the data stream format, so the -file arguement is really specifying a filesystem directory.

The name of a package is not necessarily the same as the name of the file of the package. The SUNWm64 example at the beginning of this documentation is an example of a package with a different directory name.

OBJECT METHODS

pkg()

name()

desc()

pkVersion()

arch()

email()

hotline()

vendor()

basedir()

pstamp()

instdate()

patchList()

Each of these methods returns their corresponding pkginfo parameter. Note that patchList() returns an array type, with each element listing a single patch. The pkVersion() method returns the package version, and should not be confused with the version() method.

pkgInfo()

Returns a simplified output similar to the "pkginfo" command, but does not report filesystem contents. That can be achieved by using the Solaris::Contents object.

paramDump()

Returns a hash table with every parameter in the pkginfo file and every corresponding value

AUTHOR

Chris Josephes, chrisj@onvoy.com

SEE ALSO

The pkginfo(4) manpage.