Tools for streaming installation

This section presents the tools and schemas that are related to the streaming installation of titles.

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Deployment package schema

Describes the mapping file used as input for the makepkg tool. The file has three allowed elements that describe the contents of a package: Package, Chunk, and File. These elements describe the overall package, individual streamable segments of a package (chunks), and the files in each of those chunks.

Make package resource index (makepri.exe)
Creates, dumps, and performs utility functions on package resource index (PRI) files.

Make package (makepkg.exe)
Creates application packages and application package metadata.

Split package (splitpkg.exe)
Builds subset packages from a master package.

packageutil.exe
Retrieves the signing-key information for a package file, or compares a base package file with an updated package file.