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

part of software packages, and setting this to false might keep software from being installed
correctly. Control scripts also provide important cleanup when software is removed. Setting
this to false during swremove might result in some manual cleanup being required.
Applies to swinstall and swremove.
• select_local=true
Normally set to true, selects the default depot or installation directory of the local host as the
target of the command.
Applies to swacl, swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swlist, swreg, swremove,
swverify.
• show_superseded_patches=false
If false, swlist will not display superseded patches. To see them, you must set this option to
true. Even if you explicitly swlist the superseded patch, it will not display unless this option
is true.
Applies only to swlist.
• softreboot=false
If any fileset requires to reboot, this option defines the command called by an agent, to reboot
the system after all filesets have been loaded. If set to true, softreboot is invoked.
Applies only to swinstall and swremove
• software=
Defines the default software_selections.
There is no supplied default. If there is more than one software_selection, they must be
surrounded by brackets { } or quotes. Software is usually specified in a software_selections
input file, as options on the command line or in the GUI or TUI.
Applies to all commands except swreg.
• software_view=products
Indicates which software view is to be used in the GUI. It can be set to products,
all_bundles, or a bundle category tag (shows only bundles of that category). The
default view is all_bundles plus products that are not part of a bundle.
Applies to swcopy, swinstall, swlist and swremove.
• source=
Specify a source to automatically bypass the GUI and CLI source selection dialog box. This
has the same effect as the -s source command line option. Specify the source using the
following syntax:
[path]
Applies to swcopy and swinstall.
• source_cdrom=/SD_CDROM
Defines the default location of the source CD-ROM. The syntax is:
[host][:][path]
Applies only to swinstall.
• source_depot_audit=true
If both source and target machine are updated to SD-UX revision B.11.00 or later, the system
administrator at the source depot machine can set this option to track which user pulls which
software from a depot on the source machine and when the software is pulled.
A user running swinstall or swcopy from a target machine cannot set this option; only
the administrator of the source depot machine can set it.
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