Binary distributions

[Peter Samuelson]

[Marillier, Allan <Allan.Marillier at dana.com>]
> I know how to create Solaris pkginstallable bundles, but not how to
> create AIX packages.

If you have the fileset "bos.html.en_US.prog_gds.prog_bos" from the
"Base Documentation" CD, read this chapter:

  /usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/genprogc/pkging_sw4_install.htm

(Or look in the same location on the CD itself.)

Also you will want to look at `lppbuild', a set of scripts designed to
automate AIX packaging to some degree:

  ftp://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/pub/lppbuild/RISC/4.3/src/lppbuild.2.1.tar.Z

I started down this road some time ago, with an eye for coming up with
packaging scripts for Samba and other software I use a lot.  I
concluded that good, clean, professional packaging (i.e. "much more
than just tarballs") is too much trouble to hack up compared to what
else I could be doing with my time. (:

Peter