HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes

General System Administration
Software Distributor
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Software Distributor
Software Distributor (SD) is the HP-UX administration tool set used to deliver and
maintain HP-UX operating systems and layered software applications. Delivered as part
of HP-UX, SD can help you do the following:
• Manage your OS, patches, and application software on HP-UX systems.
• Organize, standardize, and distribute software to your customers.
• Handle complex delivery challenges such as testing complete solutions for the
commercial and technical desktop.
Summary of Change
This release has been updated to incorporate a new version of the gzip command that
handles files larger than 2GB.
CAUTION Use caution when using gzip on files larger than 2GB, since the older gzip command
delivered with HP-UX cannot read them.
The swpackage command in this release has the ability to create a serial depot larger
than 2GB, only when the new allow_large_serial_depot option is set to
TRUE . In this
release, all SD commands that can read serial depots (such as swpackage, swlist,
swcopy, and swinstall) can now read a serial depot larger than 2GB.
CAUTION Use caution when creating serial depots larger than 2GB since older versions of SD
cannot read them.
The Software Distributor product contained in this HP-UX release is planned to be
available for download from the Web. See http://www.docs.hp.com/en/SD/ for
availability.
Impact
There are no impacts beyond added capability and increased performance.
Compatibility
SD is backward compatible.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.