pkg2du

- convert driver packages to Driver Update format

Synopsis

/usr/bin/pkg2du [-f] [-v] [-d dir] [-o iso] [-l label]
     [-r release] pkg [pkg ...]

Description

The /usr/bin/pkg2du utility takes one or more packages as input and converts them to Driver Update (DU) format. If the -d option is specified, the resulting DU directory tree is placed in the directory dir. If the -o option is specified, a Solaris ISO image of the DU directory tree is written in the file iso. The ISO image can be burned onto CD/DVD using cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1) (not a SunOS man page) and used during Solaris installation.

At least one of the -d and -o options must be specified. If both are specified, then both an ISO image and a directory tree are generated.

Options

The following options are supported:

-d dir

Directory where the DU directory should be created.

-o iso

Create a Solaris ISO image of the DU directory.

-f

If dir/DU or iso exists, remove it without asking first.

-l label

Label/volume name of the ISO image (if -o option is specified).

-r release

Solaris release number to use. It takes the form of the return from uname -r command, for example, 5.10. If unspecified, the release number of the currently running Solaris is used.

-v

Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

pkg [pkg...]

One or more packages to be converted to DU format.

Examples

Example 1 Creating a DU CD/DVD

The following commands create a DU CD or DVD containing packages SUNWfoo and SUNWbar.

# /usr/bin/pkg2du -r 5.10 -o my.iso SUNWfoo SUNWbar
# /usr/bin/cdrw -i my.iso

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

cdrw(1), mkbootmedia(1M), attributes(5)

mkisofs(8) (not a SunOS man page)