HP-UX 11i December 2004 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor
Chapter 8
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•The control_file attribute is no longer displayed at the product- or fileset-levels by
default when using the -v option, unless the -l file-level is also specified on the
command line. Also, a new level, control_file, has been created to show just
control_file attributes.
• Listing the product or fileset control_file attribute via -a control_files is
unchanged. This provides performance improvement when listing products and
filesets.
•The source_path attribute no longer exists in depots and is not displayed with the
file-level attributes.
• The command swlist -l bundle ... (once used to list non-bundle products if there
were no bundles in the source) has been changed so that it now listsnothing.
swpackage Produces Note Vs. Warning
The command swpackage no longer produces a warning when an unknown attribute
name is encountered. Instead, it now produces a note stating that the attribute is being
packaged as a “vendor defined attribute.”
Newest Bundle Selected by Default
Previously, when you specified an unqualified bundle name for selection and the bundle
name was ambiguous due to multiple revisions, SD-UX printed out an “ambiguous
bundle” error message. Now, SD-UX selects the newest version of the bundle by default.
This change in behavior makes bundle selection consistent with what SD-UX does for
products and filesets when multiple versions of these are available in the source.
control_utils File Improved
New functionality has been added and defect repair has been done to the
/usr/lbin/sw/control_utils file. Documentation on the control_utils functions
can be found at http://software.hp.com/SD_AT_HP/information_library.html.
The control_utils library is a collection of shell functions which can help packagers
produce better software packages.
New Environment Variable, SW_COMPATIBLE, Created
A new environment variable, SW_COMPATIBLE, has been created for use during the
execution of a verify script that is called by the swverify command. If the software being
considered is compatible with the system it is installed on, the variable will be set to
TRUE. If it is incompatible, it will be set to FALSE. This new variable will help
control-script writers determine if installed software is incompatible and should be
removed from a system.
SD-UX Changes to Patch Installation
The SD-UX patch installation paradigm has changed for HP-UX 11i. To install patches
on HP-UX 10.x systems, HP recommended that you use the match_target (Match What
Target Has) option to match patches to the target. However, 10.x SD-UX could not
identify specific software as patches.