swpackage(8)
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swpackage -- Package a software distribution.
swpackage # Filter: read PSF on stdin, write a tar archive to stdout
swpackage -s- @- # Absolutely explicit, same as above
swpackage @FILE
swpackage [-p] [-s psf_file] [-f file] [-x option=value] \
[-X options_file] [-W option] [software_selections] [@targets]
swpackage --help # more authoritative documentation
swpackage [options] --to-swbis [-s package_file] # format translator
swpackage [options] --resign [-s package_file] # modify signatures
swpackage [options] --remove-signature=N [-s package_file]
swpackage [options] --replace-signature=N [-s package_file]
swpackage reads a Product Specification File (PSF) and writes a
distribution to the specified target. If no options are given a PSF is
read on stdin and a distribution is written to the default target
either a directory, device, or standard output. To specify standard
output use a dash '-' as the target.
software_selections
Refer to the software objects (products, filesets) on which to
be operated. (Not yet implemented)
targets
Refers to the software_collection where the software selections
are to be applied. To specify standard output use a dash '-',
this overrides media_type setting to 'serial'. Target may be a
file, or device file or '-'
-f FILE
Reads software_selections from FILE. (Not implemented).
-p
Preview the package. Perform all the packaging operations
except writing the target. In verbose level 1, nothing is
written. Higher verbose levels write information on stdout.
Error and warning messages are written to stderr for verbose
levels 1 and higher.
-s PSF
Specify the PSF file, "-" is standard input.
-x option=value
Specify the extended option overriding the defaults file value.
-X FILE
Specify the extended options filename, FILE, overriding the
default filenames. This option may be given more then once. If
the resulting specified value is an empty string then reading of
any options file is disabled.
-v
(Implementation extension.) Given one time it is identical to -x
verbose=2. This option can be given multiple times with
increasing effect.
level 0: silent on stdout and stderr (not implemented).
level 1: fatal and warning messages.
-v level 2: level 1 plus file list and trailer message.
-vv level 3: level 2 verbose tar-like listing.
-vvv level 4: level 3 extra verbose tar listing.
-b BYTES
Set blocksize to BYTES number of bytes (octets). The default is
10240. (implementation extension)
--version, -V
Alternate Mode: Show version. (Implementation extension)
--help
Alternate Mode: Show help (Implementation extension)
-W option[,option,...]
Specify the implementation extension option.
Syntax: -W option[=option_argument[,option...]
Options may be separated by a comma. The implementation
extension options may also be given individually using the
'--long-option[=option_arg]' syntax.
-W cksum
Compute POSIX cksum of the individual files.
-W file-digests -W digests
Compute md5 digests of the individual files. (-W digests is
deprecated, use -W file-digests).
-W files
Store the distribution file list in .../dfiles/files.
-W dir=NAME
Use NAME as the path name prefix of a distribution and also as
the value of the distribution.control_directory and
distribution.tag attribute (if not set). May be set to an empty
string to eliminate stray leading "./".
-W sign
Compute the md5sum, sha1sum and adjunct_md5sum digests and sign
the package.
-W dummy-sign
Same as -W sign except use a dummy signature. The signer
program is not run and no password is required.
-W signer-pgm=SIGNER
Recognized SIGNERs are GPG, PGP2.6, and PGP5. swverify only
supports GPG, however, other types can be verified manually
using the options of swverify and command line utilities.
-W archive-digests
Compute the md5sum, sha1sum and adjunct_md5sum digests. See
sw(5) for info on the digest and signed data input files. The
sha1sum and md5sum attributes have identical input streams.
-W no-sha1
Do not compute the sha1 digest even if directed to by other
options. (Deprecated: There is limited reason to use this
option).
-W signed-file
Write only the signed data to the specified target but do not
sign. (Deprecated: There is limited reason to use this option).
-W gpg-name=NAME
Use NAME as the user ID to sign. NAME becomes the option arg of
the gpg --local-user option.
-W gpg-path=PATH
Use PATH as the gpg homedir.
-W gzip
compress output with file system gzip utilty
-W bzip2
compress output with file system bzip2 utility
-W lzma
compress output with file system lzma utility
-W symmetric
encrypt output with file system gpg utility
-W encrypt-for-recipient=NAME
encrypt with NAME's public key using file system gpg utility
-W source=FILE
Use serial archive located at FILE as the source instead of the
file system. The files referred by the PSF are taken from the
serial archive and not the file system.
-W numeric-owner
Same as GNU tar option. Emitted archive has only uid and gids.
-W absolute-names
Same as GNU tar option. Leading slash '/' are always stripped
unless this option is given.
-W format=FORMAT
The default format is 'pax'. The pax format will only generate
extended headers if needed. FORMAT is one of:
ustar is the POSIX.1 tar format capable of storing
pathnames up to 255 characters in length.
Identical to GNU tar 1.15.1 --format=ustar
ustar0 is a different POSIX.1 tar personality.
Identical to GNU tar 1.13.25 --posix -b1 for 99 char pathnames
Has different rendering of device numbers for non-device files,
but otherwise identical to 'ustar'
gnu Identical to GNU tar version 1.15.1 --format=gnu
oldgnu Identical to GNU tar version 1.13 and later with
block size set to 1. i.e. with option -b1.
Also identical to GNU tar 1.15.1 --format=oldgnu
gnutar same as oldgnu, oldgnu preferred.
pax Extended header tar (Default)
odc Posix.1 cpio (magic 070707).
newc cpio format (magic 070701).
crc cpio format (magic 070702).
bsdpax3 Identical to pax v3.0, ustar format with option -b 512.
-W pax-header-pid=NUMBER
Sets the number used in any pax header naming scheme to NUMBER.
You must use this option to make archive identical in subsequent
(back-to-back) invocations.
-W uuid=STRING
Sets the uuid string to STRING instead of calling uuid(1) You
must use this option to make the catalog directory identical in
subsequent (back-to-back) invocations.
-W create-time=TIME
Applies to catalog files and the create_time attribute. TIME is
the seconds since the Unix Epoch. You must use this option to
make the catalog directory identical in subsequent (back-to-
back) invocations.
-W list-psf
Write the PSF to stdout after having processed the extended
definitions.
-W to-swbis
Alternate Mode: Read a package on standard input and write a
POSIX package on standard output. Requires the
.../libexec/swbis/lxpsf program. Supported formats are any
supported format of lxpsf. Identical to:
/swbis/lxpsf --psf-form3 -H ustar | swpackage -Wsource=- -s@PSF
-W passphrase-fd=N
Read the passphrase on file descriptor N.
-W passfile=FILE
Read the passphrase from FILE in the file system. Setting FILE
to /dev/tty resets (i.e unsets) all passphrase directives, thus
establishing the default action, reading from the terminal.
-W dir-owner=OWNER
Set the owner of the leading directory archive member to OWNER.
If the option arg is "", then the owner is the owner of the
current directory.
-W dir-group=OWNER
Set the group of the leading directory archive member to OWNER.
If the option arg is "", then the owner is the owner of the
current directory.
-W dir-modep=MODE
Set the file permissions mode of the leading directory archive
member to MODE.
-W catalog-owner=OWNER
Set the owner of the catalog section to OWNER.
-W catalog-group=GROUP
Set the group of the catalog section to GROUP.
-W files-from=NAME
Read a list of files from file NAME. Directories are not
descended recursively.
-W show-options-files
Alternate Mode: Show the complete list of options files and if
they are found.
-W show-options
Alternate Mode: Show the options after reading the files and
parsing the command line options.
-W no-catalog
Do not write the catalog section.
-W no-front-dir
Do not write the directory archive members that preceed the
catalog section.
Signature Modification Options. The source file via '-s' option is a
previously signed archive file.
--addsign
Alternate Mode: Same as --add-signature-first
--delsign
Alternate Mode: Opposite of --addsign, Same as --remove-
signature=1
--add-signature-first
Alternate Mode: Add signature first in the list of package
signatures. The last signature, by convention, is the primary
signature.
--add-signature-last
Alternate Mode: Add signature last in the list of package
signatures. The last signature, by convention, is the primary
signature.
--replace-signature=N
Alternate Mode: Replace Nth signature, 0 means last signature.
--remove-signature=N
Alternate Mode: Remove Nth signature, 0 means last signature.
--resign
Alternate Mode: Same as --replace-signature=0
--resign-test, --zfilter
Alternate Mode: Copy from source to target without altering.
Does not generate a signature. The output should be identical
to the input. Also has unintended use of accessing the
compression pipeline function of swpackage.
--recompress
Modifier to alternate Mode: Applies when modifying signature.
The compression methods of the input file are detected and the
output is compressed to match.
--overwrite
Modifier to alternate Mode: Overwrites file specified as the
source name (by the -s FILE option). Will likely do so safely.
These extended options can be specified on the command line using the
-x option or from the defaults file, swdefaults.
Posix
Shown below is an actual portion of a defaults file which show default
values. These options are set in the /usr/lib/swbis/swdefaults or the
~/.swdefaults file.
swpackage.distribution_target_directory = /var/spool/sw # Not used
swpackage.distribution_target_serial = - # Not used
swpackage.enforce_dsa = false # Not used
swpackage.follow_symlinks = false # Not used
swpackage.logfile = /var/lib/swbis/swpackage.log # Not used
swpackage.loglevel = 1 # Not used
swpackage.media_capacity = 0 # Not used
swpackage.media_type = serial # Not used
swpackage.psf_source_file = - # Not used
swpackage.software = # Not used
swpackage.verbose = 1 # May be 1 2 or 3
Swbis Implementation
These extended options can be specified on the command line using
-Woption=optionarg or --option=optionarg syntax.
These options are set in the /usr/lib/swbis/swbisdefaults or the
~/.swbis/swbisdefaults file.
swpackage.swbis_cksum = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_file_digests = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_file_digests_sha2 = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_files = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_sign = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_archive_digests = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_archive_digests_sha2 = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_gpg_name = ""
swpackage.swbis_gpg_path = "~/.gnupg"
swpackage.swbis_gzip = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_bzip2 = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_numeric_owner = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_absolute_names = "false" # true or false
swpackage.swbis_format = "ustar" # gnutar or ustar
swpackage.swbis_signer_pgm = "GPG" # GPG or PGP5 or PGP2.6
Here are some commonly used options.
Options and Option Files
Show the option file options and the option files that determine the
default values.
swpackage --show-options
# and
swpackage --show-options-files
Preview the output
Show a verbose tar-like file listing on stdout
swpackage -pv
# or
swpackage -pvv
Create a signed package
Read the PSF on standard input, sign using 'admin' key using the gpg-
agent. Include sha2 digests for the files and archive. Include the
file list, compress the output using xz writing to standard output.
swpackage -s - --sign --use-agent --gpg-name=admin --files \
--sha1 --sha2 --xz @-
Resign a package
Resign a previously signed package, overwriting the original file
swpackage --resign -s foo.tar.gz --overwrite --recompress
Idempotent Invocation
Use special options to obtain an identical package two or more times
swpackage --create-time=1406254892 \
--uuid=ed3b9432-3ba1-4c01-a125-e22fb94588e2 \
--pax-header-pid=1001
ALternative Format Translation
Execute the internally generated pipeline for format translation
manually
# the following is equivalent to 'swpackage --to-swbis'
/usr/local/libexec/swbis/lxpsf --psf-form3 \
-H ustar | swpackage -Wsource=- -s@PSF
Support for embedded cryptographic signature
Description
Package signing is accomplished by including, as a package attribute, a
detached signature in the package metadata (the catalog section of the
package). The signed data is the catalog section of the package (see
sw(5) for a description) excluding the signature files archive header
and data. The package leading directory that does not contain the
/catalog/ directory in its name is not included in the signed stream.
The signed stream is terminated by two (2) null tar blocks (which are
not in the actual package file). The storage section (or payload) of
the package is included in the signed data by computing its md5 and
sha1 message digests and storing these as attributes in the catalog
section.
Signature Generation
The signature is generated by the file system signing utility.
Currently, swpackage supports GPG PGP-2.6 and PGP-5. The default is
GPG but can be selected using the -Wsigner-pgm command line option and
the swpackage.swbis_signer_pgm defaults file option. The options and
program can the displayed with the -Wshow-signer-pgm option. The
options in each case produce a detached ascii-armored signature. The
maximum length for the ascii armored file is 1023 bytes.
Passphrase Handling
The passphrase can be read from the tty, a file descriptor, and
environment variable or the GNUpg passphrase agent. These are
controlled by the options or the environment variables SWPACKAGEPASSFD
and SWPACKAGEPASSPHRASE. Placing your passphrase in an environment
variable is insecure but may be usefull to sign packages with a test
key and later replace it [when on a different host for example].
swpackage does not perform verification of the embedded cryptographic
signature, although, a description is included here for completness.
Overview
Verification requires verifying the payload section md5 and sha1
message digests and then verifying the signature. Naturally, it is
required that the signed data include the payload messages digests.
See swverify.
Manual Verification
Verification requires re-creating the signed and digested byte streams
from the archive file. This is not possible using any known extant tar
reading utility because of a lack of ability to write selected archive
members to stdout instead of installing in the file system; however,
the swverify utility can be used to write these bytes streams to stdout
allowing manual inspection and verification. See swverify.
Manual Verification Using Standard Tools
Verification using standard GNU/Linux tools is possible if the archive
is installed in the file system. Success depends on the following
factors:
1) The tar utility preserves modification times
(e.g. not GNU tar 1.3.19).
2) The archive does not contain Symbolic Links
(see sw(5) for explanation).
3) The file system is a Unix file system (e.g. ext2).
4) The package was created using -Wformat=gnutar or, -Wformat=ustar
with no file name longer than 99 octets.
Recreating the signed and digested byte streams is then accomplished
using GNU tar and the file list stored in the
<path>/catalog/dfiles/files attribute file as follows:
In this example, the package has a single path name prefix called,
namedir and the file owner/group are root. These restrictions are
suited to source packages.
Verify the signature:
#!/bin/sh
tar cf - -b1 --owner=root --group=root \
--exclude=namedir/catalog/dfiles/signature \
namedir/catalog | gpg --verify namedir/catalog/dfiles/signature -
If this fails try using GNU tar option --posix. If this fails then
you are out of luck as nothing in the catalog section can be trusted.
Verify the payload digests:
#!/bin/sh
grep -v namedir/catalog namedir/catalog/dfiles/files | \
tar cf - -b1 --owner=root --group=root \
--files-from=- --no-recursion | md5sum
cat namedir/catalog/dfiles/md5sum
Likewise for the sha1 digest.
If the package has symbolic links, Verify the adjunct_md5sum:
#!/bin/sh
grep -v namedir/catalog namedir/catalog/dfiles/files | \
( while read file; do if [ ! -h $file ]; then echo $file; fi done; )|\
tar cf - -b1 --owner=root --group=root \
--files-from=- --no-recursion | md5sum
cat namedir/catalog/dfiles/adjunct_md5sum
The symbolic link files must be verified manually by comparing to the
INFO file information.
The output format is either one of two formats specified in POSIX.1
(ISO/IEC 9945-1) which are tar (header magic=ustar) or cpio (header
magic=070707). The default format of the swbis implementation is
"ustar". The POSIX spec under specifies definitions for some of the
ustar header fields. The personality of the default swbis ustar format
mimics GNU tar 1.15.1 and is designed to be compliant to POSIX.1. The
personality of the "ustar0" format mimics, for pathnames less than 99
octets, GNU tar 1.13.25 using the "-b1 --posix" options. This bit-
for-bit sameness does not exist for pathnames greater than 99 chars as
swbis follows the POSIX spec and GNU tar 1.13.25 does not. The
"ustar0" ustar personality is deprecated. It is only slightly
different from 'ustar' in how device number fields are filled (with
spaces, zeros or NULs) for non-device files.
In addition the swbis implementation supports several other tar
variants including bit-for-bit mimicry of GNU tar (1.13.25) default
format which uses a non-standard name split and file type (type 'L').
This format is known as '--format=oldgnu'. Also supported is the gnu
format of GNU tar 1.15.1 specified by '--format=gnu'
The defacto cpio formats are also supported. "new ASCII" (sometimes
called SVR4 cpio) and "crc" cpio formats with header magic "070701" and
"070702" respectively.
Support for "pax Interchange Format" (Extended header tar) described in
IEEE 1003.1-2001 under the "pax" manual page has been implemented for
POSIX file attributes as of release 1.12 (c Aug2014). The 'swpackage'
utility will generate extended headers on an as needed basis when the
--format=pax is used. Support for POSIX ACL and SELinux attributes is
planned.
The entirety of the output byte stream is a single valid file of one
the formats mentioned above.
The swbis implementation writes its output to stdout. The default
output block size is 10240 bytes. The last block is not padded and
therefore the last write(2) may be a short write. The selected block
size does not affect the output file contents.
The swbis implementation is biased, in terms of capability and default
settings, to the tar format. Package signing is only supported in tar
format.
The input file is called a product specification file or PSF. It
contains information to direct swpackage and information that is
package meta-data [that is merely transferred unchanged into the global
INDEX file].
A PSF may contain object keywords, attributes (keyword/value pairs) and
Extended Definitions (described below). An object keyword connotes a
logical object (i.e. software structure) supported by the standard. An
object keyword does not have a value field after it, as it contains
Attributes and Extended Definitions. An attribute keyword conotes an
attribute which is always in the form of a keyword/value pair.
Attribute keywords not recognized by the standard are allowed and are
transferred into the INDEX file. Object keywords not recognized by the
standard are not allowed and will generate an error. Extended
Definitions may only appear in a PSF (never in a INDEX or INFO created
by swpackage). Extended Definitions are translated [by swpackage] into
object keywords (objects) and attributes recognized by the standard.
Comments in a PSF are not transferred into the INDEX file by the swbis
implementation of swpackage.
The file syntax is the same as a INDEX, or INFO file. A PSF may
contain all objects defined by the standard as well as extended
definitions.
For additional information see
XDSA C701 http://www.opengroup.org/publications/catalog/c701.htm, or
sw manual page.
EXTENDED DEFINITIONS
A Product Specification File (PSF) can contain Extended Definitions in
the fileset, product or bundle software definitions. They would have
the same level or containment relationship as a file or control_file
definition in the same contaning object.
Extended Definitions represent a minimal, expressive form for
specifying files and file attributes. Their use in a PSF is optional
in that an equivalent PSF can be constructed without using them,
however, their use is encouraged for the sake of brevity and
orthogonality.
The swbis implementation requires that no [ordinary] attributes appear
after Extended Definitions in the containing object, and, requires that
Extended Definitions appear before logically contained objects. That
is, the parser uses the next object keyword to syntacticly and
logically terminate the current object even if the current object has
logically contained objects.
o Extended Control File Definitions
checkinstall source [path]
preinstall source [path]
postinstall source [path]
verify source [path]
fix source [path]
checkremove source [path]
preremove source [path]
postremove source [path]
configure source [path]
unconfigure source [path]
request source [path]
unpreinstall source [path]
unpostinstall source [path]
space source [path]
control_file source [path]
The source attribute defines the location in distributors's development
system where the swpackage utility will find the script. The keyword
is the value of the tag attribute and tells the utilities when to
execute the script. The path attribute is optional and specifies the
file name in the packages distribution relative to the
control_directory for software containing the script. If not given the
tag value is used as the filename.
o Directory Mapping
directory source [destination]
Applies the source attribute as the directory under which the
subsequently listed files are located. If destination is defined it
will be used as a prefix to the path (implied) file definition. source
is typically a temporary or build location and dest is its unrealized
absolute pathname destination.
o Recursive File Definition
file *
Specifies every file in current source directory. The directory
extended definition must be used before the recursive specification.
o Explicit File Definition
file [-t type] [-m mode] [-o owner[,uid]] [-g group[,gid]] [-n] [-v] source [path]
source
source defines the pathname of the file to be used as the source
of file data and/or attributes. If it is a relative path, then
swpackage searches for this file relative to the the source
argument of the directory keyword, if set. If directory keyword
is not set then the search is relative to the current working
directory of the swpackage utility's invocation.
All attributes for the destination file are taken from the
source file, unless a file_permissions keyword is active, or the
-m, -o, or -g options are also included in the file
specification.
path
path defines the destination path where the file will be created
or installed. If it is a relative path, then the destination
path of the of the directory keyword must be active and will be
used as the path prefix. If path is not specified then source
is used as the value of path and directory mapping applied (if
active).
-t type
type may one of 'd' (directory), or 'h' (hard link), or 's'
(symbolic link).
-t d Create a directory.
If path is not specified source is used as the path attribute.
-t h Create a hard link.
path and source are specified. source is used as the value of
the link_source attribute, and path is the value of the path
attribute.
-t s Create a symbolic link.
path and source are specified. source is used as the value of
the link_source attribute, and path is the value of the path
attribute.
-m mode
mode defines the octal mode for the file.
o Default Permission Definition
file_permissions [-m mode] [-u umask] [-o [owner[,]][uid]] [-g [group[,]][gid]]
Applies to subsequently listed file definitions in a fileset. These
attributes will apply where the file attributes were not specified
explicitly in a file definition. Subsequent file_permissions
definitions simply replace previous definitions (resetting all the
options).
To reset the file_permission state (i.e. turn it off) use one of the
following:
file_permissions ""
or the preferred way is
file_permissions -u 000
o Excluding Files
exclude source
Excludes a previously included file or an entire directory.
o Including Files
include <filename
The contents of filename may be more definitions for files. The syntax
of the included file is PSF syntax.
SWBIS PSF CONVENTIONS
This section describes attribute usage and conventions imposed by the
swbis implementation. Not all attributes are listed here. Those that
are have important effects or particular interest.
o Distribution Attributes
The standard defines a limited set of attributes for the distribution
object. An expanded set is suggested by the informative annex however
a conforming implementation is not required act on them. The reason
for this is a distribution may be acted upon by a conforming utility in
such a way that attributes of the distribution become invalid. For
this reason, some attributes that refer to an entire "package" [in
other package managers] are referred from the product object and attain
their broadened scope by the distributor's convention that their
distribution contains just one product.
For example, the package NAME and VERSION are referred from the product
tag and revision, not the distribution's. This convention supports
multiple products in a distribution and is consistent with the
standard.
tag
tag is the short, file system friendly, name of the
distribution. Providing a distribution tag is optional. The
swbis implementation will use this as the [single] path name
prefix if there is no distribution.control_directory attribute.
A distribution tag attribute and swpackage's response to it is
an implementation extension. The leading package path can also
be controlled with the ''-W dir'' option.
control_directory
control_directory, in a distribution object, is the constant
leading package path. Providing this attribute is optional. A
distribution control_directory attribute and swpackage's
response to it is an implementation extension. The leading
package path can also be controlled with the ''-W dir'' option.
This attribute will be generated by swpackage if not set in a
PSF.
o Bundle Attributes
A bundle defines a collection of products whether or not the
distribution has all the products present.
tag
tag is the short, file system friendly, name of the bundle.
This value is used by the swbis implementation as a path name
component in the installed software catalog. If it is not
present the product tag is used.
o Product Attributes
A product defines the software product.
tag
tag is the short, file system friendly, name of the product.
This value is used by the swbis implementation as a path name
component in the installed software catalog. It is required.
The swbis implementation uses it in a way that is analogous to
the RPMTAG_NAME attribute, namely as the public recognizable
name of the package.
control_directory
Is the directory name in the distribution under which the
product contents are located. This value has no affect on the
installed software catalog. If it is not given in a PSF then
the tag is used.
revision
Is the product revision. It should not contain a "RELEASE"
attribute part or other version suffix modifiers. This value is
used by the swbis implementation as a path name component in the
installed software catalog. It is required by swinstall.
vendor_tag
This is a short identifying name of the distributor that
supplied the product and may associate (refer to) a vendor
object from the INDEX file that has a matching tag attribute.
This attribute is optional. This attribute value should strive
to be unique among all distributors. The swbis implementation
modifies the intended usage slightly as a string that strives to
be globally unique for a given product.tag and product.revision.
In this capacity it serves to distinguish products with the same
revision and tag from the same or different distributor. It
most closely maps to the RPMTAG_RELEASE or "debian_revision"
attributes. It is one of the version distinguishing attributes
of a product specified by the standard. It is transfered into
the installed_software catalog (not as a path name component) by
swinstall. If this attribute exists there should also be a
vendor object in the PSF in the distribution object that has
this tag. This attribute is assigned the value of
RPMTAG_RELEASE by swpackage when translating an RPM.
architecture
This string is one of the version attributes. It is used to
disambiguate products that have the same tag, revision and
vendor_tag. It is not used for determining a products
compatibility with a host. The form is implementation defined.
swbis uses the output of GNU config.guess as the value of this
string. A wildcard pattern should not be used. The canonical
swbis architecture string can be listed with swlist. For example
swlist -a architecture @ localhost
Here are some example outputs from real systems.
System `uname -srm` architecture
Red Hat 8.0: Linux 2.4.18 i686 i686-pc-linux-gnu
OpenSolaris: SunOS 5.11 i86pc i386-pc-solaris2.11
NetBSD 3.1: NetBSD 3.1 i386 i386-unknown-netbsdelf3.1
Red Hat 4.1: Linux 2.0.36 i586 i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1
Debian 3.1: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 i686 i686-pc-linux-gnu
os_name os_release os_version machine_type
These attributes are used to determine compatibility with a
host. They correspond to the uname attributes defined by
POSIX.1. If an value is nil or non-existent it is assumed to
match the host. All attributes must match for there to be
compatibility. Distributors may wish to make these values a
shell pattern in their PSF's so to match the intended collection
of hosts. swbis uses fnmatch (with FLAGS=0) to determine a
match.
o Fileset Attributes
A fileset defines the fileset.
tag
tag is the short, file system friendly, name of the fileset. It
is required although selection of filesets is not yet supported
therefore the end user will have little to do with the fileset
tag.
control_directory
Is the directory name in the product under which the fileset
contents are located. This value has no affect on the installed
software catalog. If it is not given in a PSF then the tag is
used.
o Example Source Package PSF
This PSF packages every file is current directory. It uses nil control
directories so the package structure does not change relative to a
vanilla tarball.
distribution
description "fooit - a program from fooware
that does everything."
title "fooit - a really cool program"
COPYING < /usr/local/fooware/legalstuff/COPYING
vendor
the_term_vendor_is_misleading false
tag fooware
title fooware Consultancy Services, Inc.
description ""
vendor
the_term_vendor_is_misleading true
tag myfixes1
title Bug fixes, Set 1
description "a place for more detailed description"
product
tag fooit
control_directory ""
revision 1.0
vendor_tag myfixes1 # Matches the vendor object above
fileset
tag fooit-SOURCE
control_directory ""
directory .
file *
exclude catalog
o Example Runtime (Binary) Package PSF
This is a sample PSF for a runtime package. It implies multiple
products (e.g. sub-packages) using the bundle.contents attribute.
Since the bundle and product tags exist in a un-regulated namespace and
are seen by end users they should be carefully chosen. Note that the
bundle and product have the same tag which may force downstream users
to disambiguate using software selection syntax such as fooit,bv=* or
fooit,pv=* .
distribution
description "fooit - a program from fooware
that does everything."
title "fooit - a really cool program"
COPYING < /usr/local/fooware/legalstuff/COPYING
vendor
the_term_vendor_is_misleading false
tag fooware
title fooware Consultancy Services, Inc.
description "Provider of the programs
that do everything"
vendor
the_term_vendor_is_misleading true
tag fw0
title fooware fixes
description "More fixes from the fooware users"
# Bundle definition: Use a bundle
bundle
tag fooit
vendor_tag fooware
contents fooit,v=fw0 fooit-devel fooit-doc
# Product definition:
product
tag fooit # This is the package name
revision 1.0 # This is the package version
vendor_tag fw0 # This is a release name e.g. RPMTAG_RELEASE
postinstall scripts/postinstall
fileset
tag fooit-RUN
file doc/man/man1/fooit.1 /usr/man/man1/fooit.1
file src/fooit /usr/bin/fooit
This section shows several example PSF files.
o A minimal PSF to package all files in current directory.
distribution
product
tag prod
control_directory ""
revision 1.0
fileset
tag files
control_directory ""
directory .
file *
o A PSF that uses directory mapping.
This PSF creates a package with live system paths from source that is
installed in non-live temporary locations. It is modeled on the swbis
source package.
distribution
product
tag somepackage # this is the package name
control_directory ""
revision 1.0 # this is the package revision
fileset
tag files
control_directory ""
file_permissions -o root -g root
directory swprogs /usr/bin
file swpackage
file swinstall
file swverify
file -m 755 -o root -g root / /usr/libexec/swbis
directory swprogs /usr/libexec/swbis
file swbisparse
directory swsupplib/progs /usr/libexec/swbis
file swbistar
file -m 755 -o root -g root / /usr/share/doc/swbis
directory . /usr/share/doc/swbis
file -m 444 ./README
file -m 444 CHANGES
When this PSF is processed by the command:
swpackage -Wsign -s - @- | tar tvf -
It produces the following:
drwxr-x--- root/root 0 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/
-rw-r----- root/root 307 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/INDEX
drwxr-x--- root/root 0 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/
-rw-r----- root/root 65 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/INFO
-rw-r----- root/root 33 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/md5sum
-rw-r----- root/root 41 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/sha1sum
-rw-r----- root/root 33 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/adjunct_md5sum
-rw-r----- root/root 512 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/sig_header
-rw-r----- root/root 1024 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/dfiles/signature
drwxr-x--- root/root 0 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/pfiles/
-rw-r----- root/root 65 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/pfiles/INFO
-rw-r----- root/root 1503 2003年06月03日 ... catalog/INFO
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 510787 2003年06月03日 ... usr/bin/swpackage
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 301255 2003年06月03日 ... usr/bin/swinstall
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 4105 2003年06月03日 ... usr/bin/swverify
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003年06月03日 ... usr/libexec/swbis/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 365105 2003年06月03日 ... usr/libexec/swbis/swbisparse
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 243190 2003年06月03日 ... usr/libexec/swbis/swbistar
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2003年06月03日 ... usr/share/doc/swbis/
-r--r--r-- root/root 8654 2003年05月27日 ... usr/share/doc/swbis/README
-r--r--r-- root/root 10952 2003年06月03日 ... usr/share/doc/swbis/CHANGES
o Create a PSF from a list of files.
find . -print | swpackage -Wfiles-from=- -Wlist-psf
0 on success, 1 on error and target medium not modified, 2 on error if
target medium modified.
No temporary files are used in the package generation process. When
using the default target of stdout (directed to /dev/null), there are
no file system side effects from swpackage. GNU Privacy Guard (gpg)
may alter its keys when invoked for package signing.
SWPACKAGEPASSFD
Sets the --passphrase-fd option. Set the option arg to a
integer value of the file descriptor, or to "env" to read the
passphrase from the environment variable SWPACKAGEPASSPHRASE, or
to "agent" to cause gpg to use gpg-agent, or to "tty" to restore
default behavoir to reading passphrase from the terminal.
SWPACKAGEPASSPHRASE
Use the value as the passphrase if --passphrase-fd is set to
"env"
GNUPGHOME
Sets the --gpg-home option.
GNUPGNAME
Sets the --gpg-name option, which is turn set the --local-user
option of gpg.
Swpackage does not use any archive writing utilities, it has its own
code to generate archives.
Package signing uses one of the following:
/usr/bin/gpg
/usr/bin/pgp (PGP 2.6.x)
/usr/bin/pgps (PGP 5)
Swpackage will use /usr/bin/uuidgen if present to create the uuid.
libdir/swbis/swdefaults
libbir/swbis/swbisdefaults
$HOME/.swbis/swdefaults
$HOME/.swbis/swbisdefaults
ISO/IEC 15068-2:1999, Open Group CAE C701.
info swbis
sw(5), swbis(1), swpackage(5), swbisparse(1), swign(1), swverify(8)
swpackage(8): The packaging utility of the swbis project.
Author: Jim Lowe Email: jhlowe at acm.org
Version: 1.13
Last Updated: 2014年07月15日
Copying: GNU Free Documentation License
A comment after an object keyword is wrongly not allowed by this PSF
parser. The --dir="" does not do what one would expect sometimes. The
output stream content is unaffected by the blocksize, that is the last
write may be short write. Signing is broken for cpio format archives.
swpackage(8)