Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Using Control Scripts
Introduction to Control Scripts
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• Request Scripts
This interactive script requests a response from the user as part of
software installation or configuration. Request scripts write
information into a response file for later use by the configure script
or other scripts. You can run requests scripts by executing the swask
command or using the ask option with swinstall or swconfig after
selection and before the analysis phase.
• Other Scripts
You can include other control scripts, such as a subscript that is
sourced by the above scripts. The location of the control scripts is
passed to all scripts via the SW_CONTROL_DIRECTORY environment
variable, and are denoted by the keyword control_file within the
PSF.
Space Files
The space control file is not a script. It lets you define additional disk
space requirements for the filesets and notes positive disk space impact
on any directory or file that results from the actions of control scripts.
Each fileset or product may contain a space file. The space file lists a
path and a byte size for each path. For example:
/tmp/space_dummy1 2000
/opt/space_dummy2 2000
/tmp/space_dummy3 3000
/mydir/ 4000
For each directory or file path listed in the space file, swinstall adds the
size in bytes to the disk space requirements. The size reflects the
maximum transient or permanent disk space required for the install.