About Manual Screenshots License Download Bugs Mailing lists SFE Wiki	Welcome pkgbuild is a tool for building Solaris SVr4 packages from RPM-like spec files. It is intended to be a plug-in replacement of the rpmbuild command. Most spec file elements are implemented plus a few more. The differences from real rpm spec files are summarised in the Manual It's implemented as a set of perl scripts and modules. News 2008-06-23 New bugfix release: pkgbuild 1.3.1. Get it from the download page 2008-05-05 SFE-devel mailing list - a new mailing was launched today for people contributing to the SFE spec file repository. 2008-04-07 The pkgbuild wiki is now live on sourceforge.net. Please follow the link in the sidebar. 2008-03-12 After almost 1 year, version 1.3.0 is released. Lots of nice new features and bug fixes. See the download page for details. 2008-02-06 pkgbuild irc channel: on freenode.net, channel #pkgbuild. Feel free to come and ask questions if you need help using pkgbuild. 2007-04-01 Version 1.2.0 released. Click here to download. 2006-10-01 Announcing the pkgbuild-announce list. Subscribe if you wish to be notified when a new pkgbuild version if released. 2007-04-01 Version 1.2.0 released. Click here to download. 2006-10-01 Announcing the pkgbuild-announce list. Subscribe if you wish to be notified when a new pkgbuild version if released. 2006-10-01 Version 1.1.1 released. Click here to download. 2006-07-27 The SFE spec file repository was created. It is a repository of 100+ pkgbuild spec files for various open source projects. These spec files are optimised for the Sun Studio compilers and the Solaris Nevada (or Solaris 11) release. 2005-12-09 Version 1.0.1 released. Click here to download. 2005-11-12 The RPM Guide was released under OPL. 2005-10-28 OpenSolaris Desktop sources released. JDS uses pkgbuild for building the binary packages. 2005-10-04 Version 1.0.0 is available for download. Wow, 1.0.0... Well, not as if it was complete or finished, but because it's slightly incompatible with the 0.9.x series so I had to bump the major version number. For details of the incompatible changes see the download page 2005-08-23 Eric Boutilier blogs about pkgbuild. 2005-06-29 Version 0.9.1 is available for download. Includes some minor fixes and implements   %if expression. 2005-01-18 The first public release, version 0.9.0 is available for download from sourceforge.net
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