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Deployment Package Configuration File

In addition to the software package installation materials, each deployable package is referenced by an additional package configuration file, pkginfo_PLATFORM.xml. The package configuration file describes installation packages and configuration process.

The configuration files provide the following:

• A localizable description of the installation package.
• A mechanism by which package dependencies are 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 is optionally provided using either side by side locale-specific files or embedded within a single file. The file name that matches with pkginfo_PLATFORM.xml is loaded to obtain localized message data.

The deployment system requires the package configuration files to be located parallel to the platform-specific subdirectory in the packaging tree. For example, see the following directory:

%AllUsersProfile%\CA\SM\domainserver\Deployment\Packages\SM\CA_SystemEDGE_Core\5.7.1\ENU

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