HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor (SD-UX) (new at 11i original release)
Chapter 6 133
“Automatically select patches for software installed on target” could be
confusing because the bundles did not get marked automatically for
selection in the GUI.
The new 11i behavior provides a product-level view where you see which
software is matched. After inspecting the results of the automatic
selection, you can continue with the installation or change the view back
to a bundle level.
See “SD-UX Changes to Patch Installation” on page 136 for details.
Addition of Software Groups to GUI
The -f option to swinstall, swremove, swcopy and swlist, which has
allowed users to specify collections of software through a file, has been
incorporated into the GUI. New actions have been added to allow SD-UX
GUI users to save selected software in a “Software Group” (which creates
a group) and to select that “Software Group” in subsequent sessions.
Layout Version Behavior
In 11.0 SD-UX, commands automatically converted Installed Product
Database (IPD) and depot catalogs to layout version 1.0 or the layout
version specified via the ’-x layout_version=...’ option on the
command line.
In 11i, no SD-UX command will automatically convert the layout version
of an existing target, IPD, or depot catalog, even if the ‘-x
layout_version=...’ is specified on the command line. To change the
layout version of the IPD or depot, an explicit swmodify command is
needed to make the conversion.
To convert a 0.8 depot or root to layout version 1.0 use:
swmodify -a layout_version=1.0 @ <depot_or_root>
To convert a 1.0 depot or root back to layout version 0.8 use:
swmodify -a layout_version=0.8 @ <depot_or_root>
As a result of this, the ‘-x layout_version’ should no longer be needed
except when creating a depot that is to be in layout version 0.8 format.
Then the ‘-x layout_version=0.8’ option is needed on the swpackage
and/or swcopy commands used to initially create the depot. By default,
SD-UX commands that create depots will create them in layout version
1.0 format.