Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

Registration provides a type of public recognition for the packaged depot:
• You can see the depot in the swinstall/swcopy GUI and see it in swlist
depot-level listings.
• You can read products from the depot (for example, to install).
For more information about registering depots, see “Registering and Unregistering
Depots (swreg) ” (page 123).
NOTE: If the only use of a depot created with swpackage is local access by the
packaging user, depot registration is not required.
10.6.2 Creating and Mastering a CD-ROM Depot
When swpackage creates a new depot or packages a new product, it always creates
an ACL for the depot/product. If you were to create a depot and then master it onto a
CD-ROM, the CD-ROM would contain all those ACLs, which could cause the following
problems:
• it may result in too-restrictive permissions on the CD-ROM depot.
• you could have too many user-specific ACLs on the CD-ROM.
To solve these problems, you can tell swpackage to not create ACLs in the depot by
setting the create_target_acls option to false.
This feature is provided only for the superuser because only the local superuser can
change, delete, or add ACLs to a depot that has no ACLs. The local superuser always
has all permissions.
Setting the create_target_acls to false causes swpackage to skip the creation of
ACLs for each new product being packaged (and for the depot, if it is new). This option
has no impact on the ACLs that already exist in the depot.
When a depot is used as a source for other SD-UX operations, its ACLs (or lack of ACLs)
have no bearing on the ACLs created for the targets of the operation. Source ACLs are
not related to target ACLs.
The swpackage command never creates ACLs when software is packaged onto a tape.
10.6.3 Compressing Files to Increase Performance
The packaging process may pass large amounts of data back and forth over the network
and might slow down network performance. The compress_files option can improve
performance by first compressing files that are to be transferred. This performance
gained depends on the type of files transferred. Binary files compress less than 50%,
text files generally compress more. Improvements are best when transfers are across
a slow network (approximately 50Kbytes/second or less).
If set to true, compress_files compresses files (if they have not been compressed
previously by SD-UX) before transfer from a source. You may also specify a compression
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