HP-UX 11i September 2001 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor (SD-UX) (new at 11i original release)
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to initially create the depot. By default, SD-UX commands that create depots will create
them in layout version 1.0 format.
Message Changes
Many error, warning, and information messages have been removed from or changed in
the SD-UX 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-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
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.