Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Creating Software Packages
Packaging Tasks and Examples
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Following Symbolic Links in the Source
If you set the follow_symlinks option to true, swpackage follows every
source file that is a symbolic link and include the file it points to in the
packaged fileset.
swpackage also follows each source directory that is a symbolic link,
which affects the behavior of the file * keyword (recursive file
specification). Instead of including just the symbolic link in the packaged
fileset, the directory it points to and all files contained below it will be
included in the packaged fileset.
The default value for this option is false, which causes symbolic links
that are encountered in the source to be packaged as symbolic links. The
symbolic link can point to a file that is also part of the fileset, or to a file
that is not.
Generating File Revisions
If you set the include_file_revisions option to true, swpackage
examines each source file using the what and ident commands to extract
an SCCS or RCS revision value and assign it as the file’s revision
attribute.
Because a file can have multiple revision strings embedded within it,
swpackage uses the first one returned. It extracts the revision value from
the full revision string and stores it.
This option is time consuming, especially when a what search fails and
the ident command is then executed.
The default value for this option is false, which causes swpackage to skip
the examination. No value for the revision attribute is assigned to the
files being packaged.