Building Solaris packages on Linux?

Question

One of our projects is a cross-platform piece of code. We build it on Windows, Linux, and Solaris/SPARC mostly. Of the 3, we deal with Solaris the least and it's a maintenance pain to keep our SPARC box up and running and in general Solaris administration is not our competency.

A few years back I built a working cross-compiler for SPARC64 on Linux, and that part worked great. What stopped us from going forward was the last part of our build process, which involves building a Solaris package with pkgmk and pkgtrans.

I was never able to find a Linux solution for building pkg files that can be installed on SPARC Solaris -- does anyone know if one exists today?

Answer 1

I don't know that anyone has done the work to build it on Linux, but Sun has released the pkgmk sources as part of the OpenSolaris source base.

See http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/svr4pkg/ for the source to the entire suite of SVR4 pkg* commands, though it may have dependencies on other libraries as well.