Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Creating Software Packages
Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
Chapter 10 323
Vendor Specification The vendor attributes let you add a description
to the PSF.
The layout_version defined for the PSF file determines how vendor
specifications are associated with products and bundles. If a
layout_version is not defined or is defined as 1.0, vendor specifications
will be associated with all subsequent products and bundles that define a
matching vendor_tag attribute.
If a layout_version of 0.8 is specified, all subsequent products and
bundles will automatically be assigned to a vendor_tag from the last
vendor object defined at the distribution level, if any, or from a vendor
object defined within a product or bundle, unless a vendor_tag is
explicitly defined.
The following is an example of a vendor specification:
vendor
tag HP
description < data/description.hp
title Hewlett-Packard Company
end
Each keyword defines an attribute of a vendor object. If a vendor
specification is included in the PSF, swpackage requires the vendor and
tag keywords.
NOTE The vendor specification is not the same as vendor-defined attributes.
See “Vendor-Defined Attributes” on page 321 for more information.
vendor Keyword that begins the vendor specification.
tag Defines the identifier (short name) for the vendor.
title Defines the full name (one line description) for the
vendor.
description Defines the multi-paragraph description of the vendor;
the value is either the text itself (within double-quotes)
or a pointer to the filename containing the text.
end Ends the vendor specification. This keyword is
optional.