HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor (SD-UX)
Chapter 8
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CD Searched For Only When Requested
With the release of 11.0, SD-UX introduced the automatic discovery and mounting of a
CD However, SD-UX always looked for the CD even if that was not what was wanted.
This made the start-up of the GUI slower than necessary.
While the functionality is still available in the GUI, SD-UX now only performs this
action when you push a new button in the Source Dialog called “Find Local CD.”
GUI Streamlined
For 11i, the SD-UX GUI requires fewer confirmations. It has been streamlined to reduce
the number of verification and informational popups.
Products Rather than Bundles Shown After Auto-Selection
In 11.0, GUI software selection using “Match What Target Has” or “Automatically select
patches for software installed on target” could be confusing because the products in the
bundles were not automatically marked for selection in the GUI.
The new 11i behavior provides a product-level view that shows which software has been
matched. After inspecting the results of the automatic selection, you can then continue
with the installation or change the view back to a bundle level.
See “SD-UX Changes to Patch Installation” on page 159 for details.
Software Groups Added 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 No Longer Converted Automatically
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=... option 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 the following:
swmodify -a layout_version=1.0 @ <depot_or_root>
To convert a 1.0 depot or root back to layout version 0.8 use the following:
swmodify -a layout_version=0.8 @ <depot_or_root>