From: Alex Dyas (alex.dyas@interoute.com)
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 10:56:08 EST
Hi,
Partial summary - a number of people replied to tell me that a Sun
package is actually a cpio archive. However a simple "cpio -i" doesn't
unpack all the files. After further poking around in package files and
using a hex editor I have come to the conclusion that it is actually two
cpio archives stuck together, topped with a few lines of header.
I will knock together a small Perl script to deal with all this and post
it to the list when finished.
Thanks again to all those who replied.
Alex..
> Does anyone know how I would go about unpacking a Solaris .pkg package
> on an other UNIX? Specifically I'm interested in FreeBSD, but I
> suppose the method would probably be valid for other UNIX like
> operating systems. I am not interested in installing the package,
> just unpacking it to allow me access to the files therein.
>
> I suppose I'm looking for the equivalent of 'pkgadd -s' for a
> non-Solaris UNIX OS.
>
> From what I can gather Solaris packages are in SVR4 Datastream
> format, but I can't find anything that can handle this format.
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