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gnupkg provides an easy way to make Solaris pkgadd(1) packages from source, in one step.

gnupkg <url-of-source-tarball>

Done! gnupkg is to Solaris what checkinstall is to Linux. No more messing with prototype(4), pkginfo(4), pkgmk(1), pkgtrans(1), ... unless you really want to.

gnupkg aims for the 80% case where ./configure && make && make install is sufficient to install the software but is adaptable to other cases by permitting the override any of these three steps, some "slight tweaks".

Packages known to work out of the box

Packages requiring slight tweaks

• gnupkg
• OpenSSL