When starting any project, the first questions is "where to begin?" With Sun Solaris[tm] Custom Jumpstarts, that starts with Package Clusters, Package MetaClusters, and Individual Packages.
The Solaris Package Companion provides a great way to investigate the Sun Solaris[tm] package dependencies. Packages can be grouped together into MetaClusters. Packages and MetaClusters can be grouped together into Clusters.
Starting at the top of the heap, you have Sun Solaris[tm] Package Clusters:
- SUNWCXall - Entire Distribution plus OEM support
- SUNWCall - Entire Distribution
- SUNWCprog - Developer System Support
- SUNWCuser - End User System Support
- SUNWCreq - Core System Support
- SUNWCrnet - Reduced Networking Core System Support
- SUNWCmreq - Minimal Core System Support
Each of these are composed of Sun Solaris[tm] Package MetaClusters:
- SUNWCcs - Core Solaris
- SUNWCpkgcmds - Package Management Commands
- etc...
Each of these, such as SUNWCcs, are composed of Sun Solaris[tm] Packages:
- SUNWckr Core Solaris Kernel (Root)
- SUNWcnetr Core Solaris Network Infrastructure (Root)
- SUNWcsd Core Solaris Devices
- SUNWcsl Core Solaris, (Shared Libs)
- SUNWcslr Core Solaris Libraries (Root)
- SUNWcsr Core Solaris, (Root)
- SUNWcsu Core Solaris, (Usr)
Utilizing Solaris Package Companion, the relationships between packages is transparent. First, download the Solaris Package Companion. Second, initilize a repository of the local system:
- ./spc-v0.6.ksh -i -l -r ./myrepository
- ln -s spc-v0.6.ksh s
- ln -s myrepository r
Then, you can start investigating:
| What MetaClusters are in SUNWCrnet Cluster? | ./s -r ./r -M SUNWCrnet |
| What Packages are in SUNWCssh MetaCluster? | ./s -r ./r -c SUNWCssh |
| What requires SUNWmfrun Package? | ./s -r ./r -z SUNWmfrun | xargs pkginfo |
| What does SUNWbash Package require? | ./s -r ./r -d SUNWbash | xargs pkginfo |
| What requires SUNWtls MetaCluster Packages? | ./s -r ./r -c SUNWCtls | xargs ./s -r ./r -z | xargs pkginfo | sort -u |
| What does SUNWCssh MetaCluster Packages require? | ./s -r ./r -c SUNWCssh | xargs ./s -r ./r -d | xargs pkginfo | sort -u |