Software Distributor Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (5900-2561, March 2013)

Figure 58: “An Overview of the Packaging Process”, shows an overview of the swpackage session.
Figure 58 An Overview of the Packaging Process
Phase I: Selection
When you run swpackage, you must specify a PSF and any other options you wish to include.
The swpackage command begins the session by telling you the source, target, software selections,
and options used to:
• Determine the product, subproduct, and fileset required for the structure
• Determine which files are contained in each fileset
• Determine the attributes associated with each objects
• Check PSF syntax and terminate the session if any validation errors are encountered
Phase II: Analysis
swpackage performs four checks during this phase:
1. Check for unresolved dependencies.
For every fileset in each selected product, swpackage checks to see if a requisite of the fileset
is not also selected or not already present in the target depot. Unresolved dependencies within
the product generate errors. Unresolved dependencies across products produce notes.
2. Check your authorization to package (or re-package) products.
For each new product (a product that does not exist on the target depot) swpackage checks
the target depot to see if you have permission to create a new product on it (insert permission).
If you do not, the product is not selected.
For each existing product (one you are re-packaging) swpackage checks to see if you have
permission to change it (write permission). If you do not, the product is unselected.
If all products are not selected because permission is denied, the session terminates with an
error.
If the depot is a new depot or if you are packaging to a tape, this authorization check is
skipped. If you have permission to create a new depot, then you have permission to create
products within it. Since a tape session first writes to a temporary depot then copies it to tape,
if you have permission to create a new (temporary) depot, you can package to tape.
196 Creating Software Packages