Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Glossary
Number
Glossary498
Number In packaging, a keyword that
defines the part or manufacturing number of
the distribution media (CD or tape depot).
O
Object The pieces of software that SD-UX
packages, distributes, installs, and manages.
There are three classes of objects: software
(installed on target roots or available in
depots), containers (depot, roots, alternate
roots), and jobs.
OS Operating System.
owner An attribute indicating the owner of
the file (string).
P
Package Installable SD-UX format software
created with swpackage. Packaged software
can be placed in a depot for distribution.
Packager The swpackage program, which
packages software for later distribution to
Target systems.
Packaging The task of creating a package.
Package Building Phase A phase where
swpackage builds source files and
information into a product object, and
inserts the product into an existing depot. If
the depot does not exist, swpackage creates a
new depot but does not register it.
Package Selection Phase In packaging,
reading the
product_specification_file
to determine the product, subproduct and
fileset structure; the files contained in each
fileset; and the attributes associated with
these objects.
Patch Software designed to update specific
bundles, products, subproducts, filesets, or
files on your system. There are
point
patches and
superseding (cumulative)
patches. By definition, patch software is
packaged with the is_patch attribute set to
true.
Path An attribute that specifies the full
pathname for a file.
Point patches Patches that patch separate
parts of the same base fileset.
POSIX POSIX 1387.2-1995 IEEE standard,
on which SD-UX is based.
Postinstall Script An optional, script
associated with a fileset that is executed by
swinstall after the corresponding fileset has
been installed or updated.
Postremove Script An optional, script
associated with a fileset that is executed by
swremove after the corresponding fileset has
been removed.
Prerequisite A dependency in which one
fileset requires another fileset to be installed
or configured before the first fileset can be
installed or configured. For example, fileset
A may require that fileset B is installed
before fileset A can be installed. Therefore,
fileset B is a prerequisite for fileset A. See
dependency, corequisite, and exrequisite.
Preinstall Script An optional, script
associated with a fileset that is executed by
swinstall before installing or updating the
fileset.
Preremove Script An optional, script
associated with a fileset that is executed by
swremove before removing the fileset.