Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Creating Software Packages
Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
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• Each multi-line strings support all isascii
characters. (Refer to the ctype(3) manpage.) It
represent one or more paragraphs of text. It can be
specified in-line, surrounded by double-quotes or
read from a files.
File entries must use this syntax:
< filename
•Example: </mfg/sd/description
one_line_string • Maximum length: 256 bytes
• One-line strings support a subset of isascii
characters only. (Refer to the ctype(3) manpage.)
•No isspace characters, except for space and tab,
are allowed.
•Examples: Hewlett-Packard Company
path_mapping_
string
• Maximum length: none
• A value of the form:
source [= destination ] where
the
source defines the directory in which
subsequently defined files are located. The optional
destination maps the source to a destination
directory in which the files will actually be
installed.
•Examples: /mfg/sd/files/usr = /usr
path_string • Maximum length: 255 bytes for tapes, 1024 bytes
for depots
• An absolute or relative path to a file. Many
attributes of this type are restricted to 255 bytes in
length. This restriction is due to the tar(1)
command, which requires a file’s basename(1) be
<= 100 bytes, and a file’s dirname(1) to be <= 155
bytes. (Some implementations of tar enforce < and
not <=.)
•Examples: /usr /mfg/sd/scripts/configure