HP-UX 11i March 2002 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor (SD-UX)
Chapter 6
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layout_version=0.8 option is needed for 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.)
Messages Improved or Eliminated
To eliminate unnecessary messages—and to make remaining messages more useful in
diagnosing the problem or condition being recorded—many error, warning, and
information messages have been removed from or have changed in the SD-UX log files.
Output of swlist Changed
The output of swlist has changed in the following ways:
• 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/info.html under the link Control
Script Guidelines (CSG). The control_utils library is a collection of shell functions
which can help packagers produce better software packages.