HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

Installation
Software Distributor (SD) (new)
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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” 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
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, 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 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 commands that create depots will create them in layout version 1.0
format.