Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Patches
Packaging Patch Software
Chapter 5 185
Patch File Attributes
Patches to the kernel or other libraries can be implemented and removed
with the following file level attributes:
type If set to a, designates an archive file and marks it for
an archive action during an install or update. An
archive file is a .o file that needs to be replaced in an
existing archive using the ar command.
archive_path Designates the path to the archive to which the file
should be added (instead of installing it to the path
location).
When used with the patch_save_files option, the .o
file that previously existed in the archive is saved, and
can be restored.
Sample PSF usage:
file -t a newfile.o /usr/lib/foolib.a
file
type a
archive_path /usr/lib/foolib.a
source_path /usr/lib/newfile.o