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

Disk Space
Analysis (DSA)
A process that determines if a host’s available disk space is sufficient for the selected products
to be installed.
Downdating Overwriting an installed version of software with an older version.
DSA See Disk Space Analysis
E
End An optional keyword that ends the software object specification in a PSF. No value is required.
Exrequisite A dependency in which a fileset requires the absence of another fileset before it can be installed
or configured. For example, if fileset A cannot be installed or configured if fileset B is already
installed, fileset B is an exrequisite for fileset A.
F
Fileset A collection of files. Most SD-UX operations are performed on filesets.
G
Graphical User
Interface (GUI)
An OSF/Motif ™ user interface, with windows and pull-down menus, provided with the sd,
swinstall, swcopy, swlist, and swremove commands. See also the Command Line User Interface
(CLUI) and Terminal User Interface (TUI).
Group In SD-UX security, a set of users.
Group Name In SD-UX security, the user’s primary group.
GUI See Graphical User Interface.
H
HOME A variable that contains the path of the current user’s local log-in directory.
Host A computer system upon which SD-UX operations are performed. See local host and controller.
Host ACL The ACL that is attached to and controls access to the host object.
I
Incompatible
Software
Software products are created to run on specific computer hardware and operating systems.
Many versions of the same products may exist, each of which runs on a different combination of
hardware and operating system. Incompatible software does not operate on the host(s) because
of the host’s computer hardware or operating system. The default condition in swinstall is to
disallow selection and installation of incompatible software.
INDEX/INDEX file In packaging, an INDEX file defines attribute and organizational information about an object
(for example, depot, product, or fileset). INDEX files exist in the depot catalog and the Installed
Products Database to describe their contents.
INFO An INFO file provides information about the files contained within a fileset. This information
includes type, mode, ownership, checksum, size, and pathname attributes. INFO files exist in the
depot catalog and the Installed Products Database to describe the files contained in each existing
fileset.
Input Files Defaults files, option files, software selection files, target host files, and session files that modify
and control the behavior of the SD-UX commands.
install-sd A command that lets you install the SD-UX product from media or a depot onto a workstation or
server. You may need to install SD-UX if the version on your system is corrupted or deleted. This
command, along with update-ux, replaces the older swgettools command.
Installed Product A product that has been installed on a host so that its files can be used by end-users, as opposed
to a product residing in a depot on a host’s file system. Sometimes referred to as an available
product.
Installed Products
Database (IPD)
Describes the products that are installed on any given host (or within an alternate root). Installed
product information is created by swinstall, and managed by swmodify. The contents of an IPD
reside in a directory structure with a single common root.
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