Package
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For a general description of package, we recommend Software package on Wikipedia.
What is a package?
An eZ publish package is used to distribute certain parts of an eZ publish installation to other eZ publish sites. These parts include content classes, content objects, site styles and extensions. The setup wizard also uses packages, the so-called "site packages".
File format
An eZ publish package file can be recognized by it's filename extension .ezpkg. Package files do not have their own MIME type, they are served as the default type application/octet-stream.
Actually a package is a gzipped tar file. The PHP zlib extension is required because it is used to compress and decompress eZ publish packages.
The package file contains a file called package.xml. This file contains the package definition in an XML dialect.
Package management
You can create, install, or remove packages with the online package manager or with the command line package manager.
Compatibility
"Based on my experience, packages between version don't work smoothly. I'd suggest to copy the db and do an update by hand with the provided mysql/postgres sql files + run the php if needed." -- X+