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ProFTPD pakage for opensolaris

In opensolaris there is no proftpd package, so I decide to build it and to make a pkg First, you must decide how many packages you will need and what will be their names the distributables names have the form: - -- -local[.tgz] where local means that the package is installable on /opt or /usr/local According to the solaris filesystem ( man filesystem ), add-on software could install files only on: /opt/ /etc/opt/ /var/opt/ /var/svc/manifest /var/tmp /usr/local is not an SVR4 approved directory: /usr is availble only for Solaris bundled software; exceptionally, /usr/local could be a softlink to /opt/local the usernames are limited to 8 characters. In opensolaris the pkg have the name format XXXyyy, where XXX is the name of the of company and tge yyy is the name of the software.For example, SUNWpostgr-83-libs So, let's start work on the proftpd pkg file. Setup the directory structure in your home directory somethinglike this: ~/pkg/build/$P...