Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Installed Software
Modifying the IPD (swmodify)
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including the four uname attributes (operating system name, release,
version and hardware machine type). Here is what the IPD INFO file for a
product called “Accounting” looks like:
fileset
tag ACCOUNTNG
data_model_revision 2.4
instance_id 1
control_directory ACCOUNTNG
size 292271
revision B.11.00
description Vendor Name: Hewlett-Packard Company
Product Name: Accounting
Fileset Name: ACCOUNTING
Text: "HP-UX System Accounting feature set. Use these
features to
gather billing data for such items as disk space
usage, connect time or CPU resource usage.
"
timestamp 797724879
install_date 199504121614.39
install_source hpfclc.fc.hp.com:/release/11.00_gsL/goodsyste
m state configured
ancestor HPUX10.20.ACCOUNTNG
corequisite OS-Core.CMDS-MIN,r>=B.11.00,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/6
4,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP
Catalog files are the equivalent IPD files but they are for software stored
in a depot. When a depot is created or modified using swcopy, these files
are created and placed in the specified depot (or in the default
/var/spool/sw depot). They describe the depot and its contents.
The swinstall, swconfig, swcopy, and swremove tasks automatically add
to, change and delete IPD and catalog file information as the commands
are executed. swlist and swverify tasks read the IPD information and
use it to affect command behavior.
The IPD also contains the swlock file, which manages simultaneous read
and/or write access to software objects.