The pkg info command provides detailed information about a particular IPS package.

Note: The pkginfo command does the same for any SVR4 packages you may have installed on the same system.

pkg info example:

$ pkg info p7zip

Name: compress/p7zip

Summary: The p7zip compression and archiving utility

Description: P7zip is a unix port of the 7-Zip utility. It has support for numerous compression algorithms, including LZMA and LZMA2, as well as for various archive and compression file formats, including 7z, xz, bzip2, gzip, tar, zip (read-write) and cab, cpio, deb, lzh, rar, and rpm (read-only).

Category: System/Core

State: Installed

Publisher: solaris

Version: 9.20.1

Build Release: 5.11

Branch: 0.175.0.0.0.2.537

Packaging Date: Wed Oct 19 09:13:22 2011

Size: 6.73 MB

FMRI: pkg://solaris/compress/p7zip@9.20.1, 5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.537:20111019T091322Z