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LC_MESSAGES
Determines the language in which messages should be written.
LC_TIME Determines the format of dates (create_date and mod_date ) when displayed by
swlist. Used by all utilities when displaying dates and times in
stdout, stderr,
and
logging.
TZ Determines the time zone for use when displaying dates and times.
Environment variables that affect scripts:
SW_CATALOG
Holds the path to the Installed Products Database (IPD), relative to the path in the
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
environment variable. Note that you can specify a path for
the IPD using the
installed_software_catalog
default option.
SW_CONTROL_DIRECTORY
Defines the current directory of the script being executed, either a temporary catalog
directory, or a directory within in the Installed Products Database (IPD). This vari-
able tells scripts where other
control scripts for the software are located (for exam-
ple, subscripts).
SW_CONTROL_TAG
Holds the tag name of the control_file being executed. When packaging software, you
can define a physical name and path for a control file in a depot. This lets you define
the control_file with a name other than its tag and lets you use multiple control file
definitions to point to the same file. A control_file can query the
SW_LOCATION
Defines the location of the product, which may have been changed from the default
product directory. When combined with the SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
, this variable
tells scripts where the product files are located.
SW_PATH A PATH variable which defines a minimum set of commands available to for use in a
control script (for example, /sbin:/usr/bin
).
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
Defines the root directory in which the session is operating, either "/" or an alternate
root directory. This variable tells
control scripts the root directory in which the
products are installed. A script must use this directory as a prefix to SW_LOCATION
to locate the product’s installed files. The configure script is only run when
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY
is /.
SW_SESSION_OPTIONS
Contains the pathname of a file containing the value of every option for a particular
command, including software and target selections. This lets scripts retrieve any com-
mand options and values other than the ones provided explicitly by other environment
variables. For example, when the file pointed to by SW_SESSIONS_OPTIONS is
made available to a request script, the targets option contains a list of
software_collection_specs for all targets specified for the command. When the file
pointed to by
SW_SESSIONS_OPTIONS is made available to other scripts, the targets
option contains the single software_collection_spec for the targets on which the script
is being executed.
SW_SOFTWARE_SPEC
This variable contains the fully qualified software specification of the current product
or fileset. The software specification allows the product or fileset to be uniquely
identified.
Additional environment variables that affect scripts for
swinstall:
SW_DEFERRED_KERNBLD
This variable is normally unset. If it is set, the actions necessary for preparing the
system file /stand/system cannot be accomplished from within the postinstall
scripts, but instead must be accomplished by the configurescripts. This occurs when-
ever software is installed to a directory other than /, such as for a cluster client sys-
tem. This variable should be read only by the configure and postinstall scripts of a
kernel fileset. The swinstall command sets these environment variables for use by
the kernel preparation and build scripts.
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