HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes (5900-3005, March 2013)

Version C.01.02
9/2007 Media Release
• Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) Applications media.
• Improved the functionality of the swa —? option. This offers context sensitive help on the
command line.
◦ Use swa <mode> -? to see which options apply to a specific mode.
◦ Use swa <—option> -? to see a list and description of extended options.
◦ Use swa -x option=-? to get information on the allowable values for an extended
option.
• Improved manpages.
Version C.01.01
6/2007 Media Release
• Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) Operating Environment (OE) media.
• Added to the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) Applications media.
• Supported the checking of certificate revocation lists (CRLs).
• Improved messaging and manpages.
• Supported relative paths to depots.
• Added the proxy extended option. See the swa-report(1M) manpage.
• Improved handling of inventory files where the hostname and nodename differed.
• Allowed read access by non-root users to allow creation of depots by non-privileged users.
Write access to this directory is still restricted, so the value of 'swcache' must be set to an
alternate location to allow non-root users to download software.
Version C.01.00
1/2007 Web Release and 2/2007 Media Release
• Initial release of SWA.
• Included in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31).
• Allows analysis of HP-UX 11.0 systems.
• Provided a command line interface only.
• Used as a client-side patch and security analysis/acquisition tool. It has ITRC Patch Assessment
Tool and Security Patch Check capabilities with a few minor exceptions, namely, certificate
revocation list (CRL) checking and patch set analysis.
• Used to analyze a system (and some types of depots) for patch warnings, critical defects,
security bulletins, missing Quality Pack patch bundle, and user-specified patches and patch
chains.
• Provided an HP-supplied catalog file to analyze a system and generate reports.
• Optimized the automatic selection of patch dependencies, thereby minimizing system and
patch dependency changes.
• Produced the Action, Issue, and Detail Reports as well as a consolidated HTML report for you
to see what issues are relevant to the software on the system or in the depot.
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