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Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle Solaris 11.1     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  IPS Design Goals, Concepts, and Terminology

2.  Packaging Software With IPS

3.  Installing, Removing, and Updating Software Packages

4.  Specifying Package Dependencies

5.  Allowing Variations

6.  Modifying Package Manifests Programmatically

7.  Automating System Change as Part of Package Installation

8.  Advanced Topics For Package Updating

9.  Signing IPS Packages

10.  Handling Non-Global Zones

11.  Modifying Published Packages

A.  Classifying Packages

B.  How IPS Is Used To Package the Oracle Solaris OS

Oracle Solaris Package Versioning

Oracle Solaris Incorporation Packages

Relaxing Dependency Constraints

Oracle Solaris Group Packages

Attributes and Tags

Informational Attributes

Oracle Solaris Attributes

Organization-Specific Attributes

Oracle Solaris Tags

Oracle Solaris Incorporation Packages

Oracle Solaris is delivered by a set of packages, with each group of packages constrained by an incorporation.

Each incorporation roughly represents the organization that developed each group of packages, though there are some cross-incorporation dependencies within the packages themselves. The following incorporation packages are in Oracle Solaris (pkg list *incorporation):

pkg:/consolidation/SunVTS/SunVTS-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/X/X-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/admin/admin-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/cacao/cacao-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/cde/cde-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/cns/cns-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/dbtg/dbtg-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/desktop/desktop-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/desktop/gnome-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/gfx/gfx-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/install/install-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/ips/ips-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/java/java-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/jdmk/jdmk-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/l10n/l10n-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/ldoms/ldoms-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/man/man-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/nspg/nspg-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/nvidia/nvidia-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/osnet/osnet-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/sfw/sfw-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/sic_team/sic_team-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/solaris_re/solaris_re-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/sunpro/sunpro-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/ub_javavm/ub_javavm-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/vpanels/vpanels-incorporation
pkg:/consolidation/xvm/xvm-incorporation

Each of these incorporations includes the following information:

Each package delivered on the system contains a require dependency on one of these incorporations. See require Dependency for more information.

Oracle Solaris also includes a special incorporation named entire. The entire incorporation constrains all other incorporations to the same build by including both require and incorporate dependencies on each incorporation package. In this way, the entire incorporation defines a software surface such that all packages are upgraded as a single group.