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

To copy a list of software selections (on a local CD-ROM) named in the file mysoft to a depot at
the path /depots/mydep/ on the host named hostA and preview the process before actually
copying the software:
swcopy -p -f mysoft -s /mnt/cd @ hostA:/depots/mydep/
4.2.4.2 Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
The swcopy command may prompt you for codewords if you try to access codeword protected
software. You can also enter new codewords from the command line or from the GUI. This process
is identical to that used by swinstall. See “Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs ”
(page 51) for more information.
4.2.4.3 Multiple Software Products in Depots
Software is packaged into products. Depots can store multiple versions of a product.
If a product version already exists in the depot, swcopy will not replace it unless the reinstall
option is set to true. If this option is true, then the product is recopied.
If other versions of the product already exist in the depot, swcopy copies in the new version and
the others are not changed.
swcopy does not automatically notify you when multiple versions of a product exist. swcopy only
notifies you when an exact version exists and will be skipped (or recopied)
4.3 Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
To make the software in a depot available for use across a network by other SD-UX commands,
you must register the depot. You can also unregister a depot if you do not want it to be available.
Depots are registered or unregistered in these ways:
• The swcopy command automatically registers newly created depots. (You can turn this function
on or off with the register_new_depot option.)
• The swremove command automatically unregisters a depot after removing all the software the
depot contains.
• The swreg command explicitly registers or unregisters depots.
The swreg command lets you explicitly register or unregister depots when the automatic registration
features of swcopy or swremove are not enough. For example, you can use swreg to:
• Make a CD-ROM or other media available as a registered depot.
• Register a depot that was created with swpackage.
• Unregister a depot to restrict network access without physically removing the depot from a
host.
4.3.1 Register Media or Create Network Depot?
When does it make sense to use your software media as a registered depot versus using the media
to create a network depot? In general, using media as a depot makes sense for small-scale use,
such as when only one or two other systems need to access the media. If more systems will need
to access the media, performance will be better if you create a network depot from the individual
media. See “Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples” (page 98) for an example.
4.3.2 Registration and Security
Because SD-UX stores its objects in the file system, someone could build a “Trojan Horse” file system
image of a software depot. This could breech the security of any system that installed products
from the false depot. To protect systems from such a situation, SD-UX requires that depots be
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