OpenCSW for Package Maintainers

This is a manual for people who want to build Solaris packages and Solaris package repositories, either at OpenCSW or at their own organization.

• About Documentation at OpenCSW
  • Introduction
  • Editing documentation
  • No documentation is better than wrong documentation
  • Moving documentation
  • What should not be documented?
• Contributing to recipes
  • References
• OpenCSW filesystem layout
  • Introduction
• Building a package catalog
• Shared libraries
  • Background
  • Goals
  • Non-goals
  • Overview
  • Implementation details
  • Grouping shared libraries
  • Transitioning of the existing packages
  • Potential problems
  • Footnotes
• Package naming
  • pkgname vs catalogname
  • Applications and named projects
  • Shared libraries
  • Development packages
  • Perl, Python, Ruby
• Buildfarm setup
  • Core setup
  • Advanced setup