
This document represents an example of packaging OpenDS using the Image Packaging System. Refer to the Package Design Examples page for an overview of effort to produce several examples of packaging popular distributions.
Overview
Filesystem Layout Considerations
Package List
| Package Name | Title |
Description | Comments / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| opends | OpenDS Metapackage |
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| opends-incorporation | OpenDS Version Incorporation |
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| opends-server | OpenDS Server |
Contains both OpenDS.jar file and all of the associated administrative and support tools. | |
| opends-core | OpenDS Core Server | Contains only the OpenDS.jar file. Useful for applications that embed OpenDS. | |
| opends-dsml | OpenDS Directory Services Markup |
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| opends-snmp | OpenDS SNMP Support |
Package Creation Scripts
An initial iteration of OpenDS packaging scripts is described in detail in Chris Kampmeier's blog entry OpenDS in pkg(5) Format. The key files are:
The current versions of these files produce only an "opends" package containing the core server and an "opends-dsml" package. As the package design of OpenDS matures, these scripts and the prototype files will be modified.