HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor (SD-UX) (new at 11i original release)
Chapter 6
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Searching for CD Only When Requested
SD-UX introduced the automatic discovery and mounting of a CD with the release of
11.0.However, SD-UX always looked for the CD even if that was not what was wanted.
That made the start-up of the GUI slower than necessary.
The functionality is still available in the GUI, but now SD-UX only performs this action
when you push a new button in the Source Dialog called “Find Local CD”.
Streamlined GUI
For 11i, the SD-UX GUI requires fewer confirmations. It has been streamlined to reduce
the number of verification and informational popups.
Shows Products Rather than Bundles 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 bundles did not
get marked automatically for selection in the GUI.
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” on page 114 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-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 Behavior
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=...’ 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