HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 4 File Formats (vol 8)

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NAME
pdf - Product Description File
DESCRIPTION
A Product Description File describes product files contained in the
HP-UX operating system. It consists
of a file containing a single line entry for each file described, where each entry contains the following fields:
pathname
owner
group
mode
size
links
version
checksum
linked_to
Fields are separated by a colon (
: ), and contain the information indicated:
pathname Absolute pathname of the file (starts with
/ ). If pathname is preceded by ?
,itisan
optional file that may or may not be present on the system.
owner Symbolic or numeric
ID of the owner of the file.
group Symbolic or numeric ID of the group of the file.
mode Symbolic representation of file type and permission information as displayed by the
ls -l command.
size Size of the file in bytes. In the case of device special files, it is the major/minor
number. Directory sizes are not recorded.
links Number of hard links to pathname.
version Numeric value of the revision of the file. Commands supporting PDFs determine this
value by invoking the what command on the file and searching for a revision number
(see what(1)). If no revision is found, ident invoked (see ident(1)). The version
number recorded is the first one encountered. If no version number is found, the field
is empty.
checksum Result of the application of the Ethernet (and hence IEEE 802.3) CRC checksum algo-
rithm to the file’s contents.
linked_to File to which pathname is linked, whether with a hard or symbolic link. If path-
name is not a link, this field is empty.
Some commands (namely
pdfdiff and pdfck) rely on the convention that one file in a set of hard links
is considered the primary file, indicating no linked_to file in the PDF,
while the remaining files in the set all
indicate the primary file as the linked_to (see pdfdiff(1M) and pdfck(1M)). This convention prevents double
counting in size calculations, and allows some efficiencies in algorithms for checking consistency of links.
Empty fields indicate a ‘‘don’t care’’ status. Any field except pathname can be empty.
comment lines in the file begin with the percent character (
%). The first line of the file is always the com-
ment:
% Product Description File
The second comment line is produced by the mkpdf command’s -c option. For HP-UX files, this comment
usually indicates the product name and release.
EXAMPLE
Here is an example product description file:
% Product Description File
% fileset TEST, Release 1.0
/usr/bin/basename:bin:bin:-r-xr-xr-x:2244:1:66.2:4066520052:
/usr/bin/cat:bin:bin:-r-xr-xr-x:4740:1:66.2:2516588651:
/usr/bin/ccat:bin:bin:-r-xr-xr-x:24576:2:66.12:330130894:
/usr/bin/dirname:bin:bin:-r-xr-xr-x:1936:1:64.3:549465715:
/usr/bin/grep:bin:bin:-r-xr-xr-x:11988:3:66.11:2104745188:
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