HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

Installation

Software Distributor (SD) (new)

Chapter 6 129

Message Changes

Many error, warning, and information messageshave been removed from

or changed in the SD log ﬁles. These changes are to eliminate

unnecessary messages and to make remaining messages more useful in

diagnosing the problem or condition being recorded.

Output of swlist

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 ...’ used to list non-bundle

products if there are no bundles in the source has been changed to list

nothing.

swpackage Change

swpackage no longer produces a ‘warning’ when an unknown attribute

name is encountered. It now produces a ‘note’ stating that the attribute

is being packaged as a ‘vendor deﬁned attribute’.

Bundle Selection

Previously, when you speciﬁed an unqualiﬁed bundle name for selection

and the bundle name is ambiguous due to multiple revisions, SD printed

out an ‘ambiguous bundle’ error message. Now, SD selects the newest

version of the bundle by default.

This change in behavior makes bundle selection consistent with what SD

does for products and ﬁlesets when multiple versions of these are

available in the source.