Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Creating Software Packages
Packaging Tasks and Examples
Chapter 10 367
Making Tapes from an Existing Depot
You can copy one or more products from an existing depot to a tape using
swpackage. Instead of specifying a PSF as the source for a packaging
session, just specify an existing depot. For example:
swpackage -s /var/spool/sw ...
To copy all of the products in a depot to a tape:
swpackage -s
depot -d tape -x target_type=tape
To copy only some of the products in a depot to a tape, specify the
products as software selections:
swpackage -s
depot -d tape -x target_type=tape \
product1 product2 ...
You can also use the -f file option can be used to specify several
software selections instead of listing them on the command line.
When products are copied from a depot to a tape, the ACLs within the
depot are not copied. (The swpackage command never creates ACLs
when software is packaged onto a tape.)
swpackage cannot compress files when writing to a tape.