HP-UX 11i June 2004 Release Notes

Installation
Update-UX
Chapter 8
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Update-UX
You can update an existing HP-UX 10.20 or 11.0 system to 11i v1 using the new
update-ux command. Beginning at 11i v1, this command replaces swgettools to
perform OS updates. With it, you can also add a new Operating Environment (OE),
change an OE, or change the OS word-width from 32- to 64-bit on appropriate systems.
For more information on the update-ux command, see the HP-UX 11i Installation and
Update Guide.
updated for June
2004
Update-UX has been updated to incorporate defect fixes.
updated for
December 2003
Update-UX has been updated to incorporate defect fixes and to support changes to the
Operating Environments.
updated for
September 2003
Starting with the September 2003 release, the Update-UX product includes a “default
selections” file, update-ux.selections, which is installed in /usr/lib/sw. This file
provides a list of bundles that will be selected for install during an OS update to the
September 2003 release.
Also new with the September 2003 version of Update-UX is support for the -f
selection_file option on the update-ux command line. This allows you to create your
own selections file and specify that your file be used in place of the “default selections”
file. This provides you with the flexibility to “deselect” any bundles listed in the
update-ux.selections file by providing your own file, which doesn’t contain these
bundles. In order to do this, you must first install the September 2003 version of the
Update-UX product onto your target system, then copy and edit the
/usr/lib/sw/update-ux.selections file as desired. Then, when executing update-ux,
your custom selections file can be specified on the update-ux command line via the -f
selection_file
option.
updated for June
2003
Update-UX, starting with June 2003 OEUR, includes its own copy of Software
Distributor (SD). This allows the system being updated to end up with an HP-UX 11i v1
SD which preserves NIS+ functionality.
new for March
2002
The update-ux script, once a part of the SW-DIST.SD-UPDATE fileset, has been moved to
the new Update-UX product in the Update-UX.UUX fileset. As a result, customers can
now install the update-ux script and its accompanying update-ux manpage on a 10.20
or 11.00 system (using instructions in the HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide).
Documentation
For more information, see the HP-UX 11i Installation and Update Guide at
http://www.docs.hp.com, and the manpage update-ux (1M).