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# Packages
A package is the unit of installation on a Fuchsia system.
## Anatomy
_To be added..._
## Working with packages
The majority of these instructions rely on the `pm` tool which is available
in `//tools`.
This document describes the various steps to build and install a package:
* [Build a package](#build-package)
* [Publish a package](#publish-package)
* [Install a package](#install-package)
* [Run a component from an installed package](#run-component)
For more details about each step, see `pm`'s help messages.
### Build a package {#build-package}
To build a package:
1. Create the package ID file:
Note: `$PACKAGE_DIR` is a staging directory where the package
is built.
```
pm -o $PACKAGE_DIR -n $PACKAGE_NAME init
```
This generates the package ID file implicitly as
`$PACKAGE_DIR/meta/package`. Set `$PACKAGE_ID_FILE` accordingly
for use in subsequent steps:
```
export PACKAGE_ID_FILE=${PACKAGE_DIR}/meta/package
```
`$PACKAGE_ID_FILE` will contain the following data:
```
{
"name": "<package name>",
"version": "<package version>"
}
```
2. Create the manifest file, `$MANIFEST_FILE`, that provides the path to
the package ID file. Each line of a manifest file maps a single file that
is contained in the package and is in the form of `destination=source` where:
* `destination` is the path to the file in the final package
* `source` is the path to the file on the host machine
The manifest file must include at least one line for the package ID file like
this:
```
meta/package=<package ID file>
```
3. Generate the package metadata archive:
```
pm -o $PACKAGE_DIR -m $MANIFEST_FILE build
```
This creates the metadata archive at `$PACKAGE_DIR/meta.far`.
4. Create the package archive `$PACKAGE_ARCHIVE`:
```
pm -o $PACKAGE_DIR -m $MANIFEST_FILE archive
```
This command creates the package archive implicitly as
`$PACKAGE_DIR/$PACKAGE_NAME-0.far`. Set `$PACKAGE_ARCHIVE` accordingly
for use in subsequent steps:
```
export PACKAGE_ARCHIVE=${PACKAGE_DIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}-0.far
```
If the contents of the package change, you need to re-run the
`pm -o $PACKAGE_DIR -m $MANIFEST_FILE archive` command.
You have successfully built a package. You are now ready to publish the package.
### Publish a package {#publish-package}
To publish a package:
1. Initialize a directory, `$REPO`, that serves as a packages repository:
```
pm newrepo -repo $REPO
```
This creates a directory structure named `$REPO` that is ready for
publishing packages.
2. Publish packages to the repository `$REPO`:
```
pm publish -a -r $REPO -f $PACKAGE_ARCHIVE
```
`pm publish` parses `$PACKAGE_ARCHIVE` and publishes the package in the
provided `$REPO` directory. If you run this command multiple times with
different package archives, `pm publish` publishes the packages to the same
repository. New versions of a same package can be published using the same
command.
You have successfully published a package. You are now ready to install a
package.
### Install a package {#install-package}
To install a package:
1. Start the package server:
```
pm serve -repo $REPO
```
By default, this starts an amber server on the host machine at port `8083`.
2. (On the target device) Add the new repository as an update source with
`amberctl`:
```
amberctl add_repo_cfg -n $REPO -f http://$HOST_ADDRESS:8083/config.json
```
If the component is not already on the system, `amberctl` installs the package.
If the package already exists, `amberctl` installs any package updates.
You have successfully installed or updated the package. You are now ready to
run a component from the installed package.
### Run a component from an installed package {#run-component}
To run a component published in a package:
1. (On the target device) Run:
Note: `$COMPONENT_URI` is in this form
`fuchsia-pkg://${REPO}/${PACKAGE_NAME}#meta/<component name>.cmx`.
```
run $COMPONENT_URI
```
You have successfully run a component from the installed package.