How to create package in Solaris

For this example I will be use apache web server, compiled from source and created as package

Create directory structure for package. For me /usr/src sound's good, but you can do it using your home directory
 

# cd /usr/src
# mkdir RTNapache InfoPath

Create in InfoPath directory file pkginfo with content
 

ARCH=i386
CATEGORY=application
NAME=Apache httpd server
PKG=RTNapache
VERSION=2.2.4
DESC=The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort 
aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and 
freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server.
VENDOR=Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004 http://www.apache.org/licenses/

- ARCH is architecture you build this package. Can be sparc, i386 or ppc
- CATEGORY describe with keywords in which category is the package
- NAME define brief name of our package
- PKG is the name of package. Here is interest the fact 1st 4 letters should be unique
- VERSION is the version of package. In this case this is the version of Apache httpd server
- DESC is extensive text about the package
- VENDOR describe the copyright of the package

Configure, compile and install the software on original place
 

# ./configure --prefix=/opt/RTNapache --enable-so –enable-mods-shared=most
# make
# make install
# cd /opt/RTNapache/
# mv  * /usr/src/RTNapache/
# cd ..
# rmdir RTNapache

Do some changes to be sure server will work fine
 

Change index.html in /usr/src/RTNapache/htdocs to represent the situation with compiled software
Change in /usr/src/RTNapache/conf/httpd.conf: 
- comment ServerAdmin line
- set ErrorLog to be /var/adm/httpd because /opt is not the proper place for log files
- set CustomLog to be /var/adm/httpd (same reason as above)
Change permition of /usr/src/RTNapache/htdocs to be 755 to let user daemon to read web server content
Change ownership of /usr/src/RTNapache to be root:root

Create in InfoPath directory file, named prototype. To make it by hand is very hard, so we will use tool, named pkgproto executing
 

# pkgproto ./RTNapache > InfoFiles/prototype

Add record to prototype file for creation of /var/adm/httpd directory
 

# echo "d none /var/adm/httpd 0644 root root" >> InfoFiles/prototype

Add record to prototype file with information about pkginfo file
 

# echo "i pkginfo=/usr/src/InfoFiles/pkginfo" >>InfoFiles/prototype

Create the package
 

#  pkgmk -f InfoFiles/prototype -b /usr/src

Let's get little info about this new package
 

# cd /var/spool/pkg
# pkginfo -d .
application RTNapache Apache httpd server

Now in directory /var/spool/pkg we get our package and we can pack it as tar, transfer somewhere and install