ant script and solaris package

[Siva kandasamy]

Hi there,
How do I create solaris package using ant script ?
Any information is appreciated.
thanks
siva

[Tim Holloway]

Well, in my case, the build itself is done on a Windows machine. So what I do is create a dist/solaris directory with the Solaris package sources in it and manually scp the whole directory up to the Solaris box where I run a pkgmk script on it.

There are ways to do this more automatically. Among them are:

1. Run the build on a Solaris box (requires jdk+ant) and execute the pkgmk command via Ant's exec task.

2. Have Ant do the scp itself (requires extra Ant plugin), then login and run pkgmk.

3. setup a cygwin environment and have it scp, then do ssh run pkgmk from a cygwin shell script.

Personally, I'm thinking about #4. Setup a web cgi task on the Solaris box where I can upload a tar or zip copy of the package source and have the cgi tun the pkgmk. Just not thinking very hard about it yet.

[Siva kandasamy]

Thank You.
I am using my ant in solaris environment.
If any one has any sample code to build solaris package,
that would be very helpful.
thnaks
siva

[Tim Holloway]

This is all your fault! I added this to our favorite apps Friday. Finally decided to stop uloading builds from Windows.

      <!-- =====================================================
              P A C K A G E
      ======================================================= -->
 
      <!-- Build Solaris packages -->
      <target name="solaris" depends="dist">
          <exec os="SunOS" executable="bash" dir="${dist.solaris.dir}">
              <arg line="mkpkg.sh"/>
          </exec>
      </target>     

For convenience' sake, I've been putting all the package source files in a "dpkg" subdirectory of the Solaris distribution build directory and including a build script (mkpkg.sh). It looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/bash
PKG=MYCOpkgnm
mkdir install
pkgmk -d install
pkgtrans -s install /tmp/$PKG all 
pushd /tmp
gzip $PKG
popd
mv /tmp/$PKG.gz .
rm -rf install
echo "Package $PKG built."
 

[Siva kandasamy]

WOW! this is very kind of you.
BTW, what is "popd" and "pushd" means ?
thanks
siva
[ December 09, 2004: Message edited by: Siva kandasamy ]