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Creating Software Packages

Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)

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Control Files SD-UX supports execution of control files (also known

as control scripts) at the product and fileset level. Control scripts let you

perform additional checks and operations. The swinstall, swconfig,

swverify, and swremove commands each execute one or more vendor

supplied scripts. All scripts are optional but many times are needed

correctly complete the task that you want your software package to

perform. See Chapter 11, “Using Control Scripts,” on page 369 for a

complete discussion of control scripts.

Selecting the PSF Layout Version

You can select the layout version in the depot definition in the PSF (see

“Product Specification File Semantics” on page 321) or with the

layout_version option for swpackage, swmodify, swcopy, or swlist.

PSF syntax conforms to the layout_version=1.0 of the IEEE Standard

1387.2: Software Administration(POSIX). Previous versions of SD

supported the POSIX layout_version=0.8 syntax, which continues to

be supported.

Software depots cannot mix layout versions; they must be one or the

other.

Table 10-3 Control File Attributes

Keyword Type

Size in

Bytes

Example

checkinstall

checkremove

configure

control_file

fix

postinstall

postremove

preinstall

preremove

request

unconfigure

unpreinstall

unpostinstall

verify

path_string

./scripts/checkinstall

./scripts/checkremove

./scripts/configure

./scripts/subscripts

./scripts/fix

./scripts/postinstall

./scripts/postremove

./scripts/preinstall

./scripts/preremove

./scripts/request

./scripts/unconfigure

./scripts/unpreinstall

./scripts/unpostinstall

./scripts/verify