Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Creating Software Packages
Packaging Tasks and Examples
Chapter 10364
Depots on Remote File Systems
Because the swpackage analysis and build phases operate as the
superuser, there are constraints on how swpackage creates, adds to, or
modifies products on a depot that exists in an NFS-mounted file system.
If the superuser does not have write permission on the remote file
system, swpackage will be unable to create a new depot-it will terminate
before the analysis phase begins.
If the superuser does have write permission on the remote file system
but the option write_remote_files is false, swpackage will be unable to
create a new depot - it will terminate before the analysis phase begins.
If the superuser does have write permission on the remote file system
and you set the write_remote_files to true, swpackage creates the new
depot and package products into it.
The constraints for an existing NFS mounted depot are the same as
when creating a new depot.
So, you must:
1. Set the write_remote_files option to true and
2. Make sure the superuser can write to the NFS file system to package
a depot on an NFS-mounted file system.
When these constraints are satisfied, the ACL protection mechanism
controls operations on NFS mounted depots the same way it controls
operations on local depots.