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Deployment Package Configuration File

In addition to the software package installation materials, each deployable package must be referenced by an additional package configuration file, pkginfo_PLATFORM.xml. The package configuration file describes what packages to install and how the installation is configured. The configuration files provide the following:

• A localizable description of the installation package
• Text for any End User License Agreement (EULA) that must be accepted in the UI
• A mechanism by which package dependencies may be encoded in a machine-readable format
• Documenting the publicly accessible installation parameter types
• Additional context to the parameter types so a level of validation may be performed within the UI
• A mapping between parameter names and the tokens used to represent those parameters in the packages installation program, in a platform independent manner
• Specifies how the installation materials should be executed on a target machine
• Mapping between the installer exit codes and those understood by the deployment system

Localized elements of the pkginfo.xml file may optionally be provided using either side by side locale-specific files or embedded within a single file. At load time any file whose name matches filename pkginfo_PLATFORM.xml may be loaded to obtain localized message data.

The deployment system requires the package configuration files to be located parallel to the platform-specific sub-directory in the packaging tree. A single package description file can describe the installation for multiple platforms. See the following directory:

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\CA\SM\domainserver\Deployment\Packages\SM\CA_SystemEDGE_Core\5.6.0\ENU

pkginfo_AIX.xml
pkginfo_HPUX.xml
pkginfo_Linux.xml
pkginfo_Solaris_sparc.xml
pkginfo_Solaris_x86.xml
pkginfo_Windows.xml