Build your own catalogs
If you have test packages that you have built for CSW or your very own packages that have dependencies to each other you may want to use pkgutil to install them. For that to work you need a catalog for your packages just like the ones CSW publishes.
There's now a simple perl script to parse your packages in a directory and build a catalog for them. The one required argument is the directory to parse for *.pkg.gz files. It creates two files: catalog and descriptions.
Note that to create a CSW catalog you need to follow the guidelines on how to name and version packages, see http://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/contribute-packages/build-standards/#versioning.
$ bldcat
bldcat, build CSW catalogs.
Usage: bldcat [-fh] <package dir>
-f, --format=x Set catalog format ([8]|9)
-h, --help Show this help
Written and maintained by Peter Bonivart.
$ bldcat .
Inspecting ./xv-3.10a,REV=2008.10.17-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonivart csw 167 Oct 22 17:19 catalog
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonivart csw 167 Oct 22 17:19 descriptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 bonivart csw 1877768 Oct 22 17:19 xv-3.10a,REV=2008.10.17-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
$ more catalog
xv 3.10a,REV=2008.10.17 CSWxv xv-3.10a,REV=2008.10.17-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz d887c7aed0e849471467e4944d14c2eb 1877768 CSWcommon|CSWtiff|CSWpng|CSWjpeg|CSWzlib none
The script is a part of the official pkgutilplus package.
Catalogs for SUNW packages
From version 1.9.1 a new script is included to build CSW catalogs from Sun packages. The script is build_sun_catalog.py and is written by Maciej Blizinski1.
Warning. Note that if you want to use SUNW packages you should not mix packages from one update onto a system installed with a different update and make sure you reinstall all patches, see the Sun Patchblog2 for details.
