Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Creating Software Packages
Packaging the Software (swpackage)
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3. After the individual filesets, create the product’s informational files
(meta-files).
A target depot is only the first step in creating a CD-ROM. If the ISO
9660 standard format is desired, a utility to perform this conversion
would be necessary. This conversion is not supported by swpackage.
Distribution tapes are created in tar format (although SD-UX commands
can also read depots from cpio format tapes). To create the tape,
swpackage first builds the products into a temporary distribution depot.
(The depot is removed when swpackage completes.) To conserve space,
all files exist as references to the real source files. After the distribution
depot is constructed, swpackage then archives it, along with the real
files, onto the tape device.
When archiving a product that contains kernel filesets onto a tape
media, swpackage puts these filesets first within the archive to provide
efficient access by swinstall. swpackage also orders filesets based on
prerequisite dependency relationships.
Phase IV: Make
Tape
This optional phase occurs only when you package to a distribution tape.
• In this phase, swpackage copies the source files and a temporary
depot catalog to the tape.
• swpackage does a tape space calculation to ensure that the tape can
hold the software package. If one tape cannot hold it all, then
swpackage will partition the software across multiple tapes.
• swpackage cannot compress files when writing to a tape.