Category:Package

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The Package type represents a discrete deployable computer file or archive of files and contains commands to support the creation and installation life cycles. It can be used separately or in conjunction with Service. Use a Builder to automate bulk import of multiple packages.

Reference

• Package Reference

Definition

Core type model

Metadata

The table below gives a brief description for each of the attributes of a package type. The ones with an asterisk are required during the deployment cycle.

Project XML

A package can be registered in XML using the project.xml format. Here is an example.

File listing: apache-tomcat-5.5.26.zip.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//ControlTier Software Inc.//DTD Project Document 1.0//EN" 
    "project.dtd">
<project>
  <package 
      arch="noarch"
      base="apache-tomcat-5.5.26" 
      buildtime="2008061570109" 
      description="The Tomcat application server." 
      filename="apache-tomcat-5.5.26.zip" 
      filetype="zip" 
      installroot="${env.CTIER_ROOT}/demo/apache-tomcat-5.5.26"
      installrank="1" 
      name="apache-tomcat-5.5.26.zip" 
      release=""
      releasetag=""
      repoUrl="/zip/zips/apache-tomcat-5.5.26.zip" 
      restart="false"
      type="zip"
      vendor=""
      version="5.5.26"      
     />
</project>

You can load this XML file using the ProjectBuilder load-objects command like so:

ctl -p project -m ProjectBuilder -c load-objects -- -filename apache-tomcat-5.5.26.zip.xml

Querying

Use the ProjectBuilder find-objects command to list all "zip" packages:

 $ ctl -p demo -m ProjectBuilder -c find-objects -- -type zip
 |
 |--(zip) apache-tomcat-5.5.26.zip

For a graphical alternative, you can use the Graphical resource editor and view the packages there.

Go to the Package list. You will see it list all packages.