Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

appropriate, based on the target’s ancestor attributes. This behavior applies to
any filesets you select directly and to filesets automatically selected to meet
dependencies for a patch filesets. Likewise, removing a fileset when this option is
false causes sibling filesets to be removed at the same time.
When set to true, this option allows a single patch fileset to be installed, copied,
or removed to or from a target without dragging along sibling filesets (that is,
filesets that have an ancestor on the target that would usually be loaded if this
option was set to false). This allows a target to contain a patch that has been “split”
into component filesets. This can create harmful results if one fileset in a sibling
group is updated while others remain at an earlier release. Running a swlist on
the target after using this option may show more than one active patch at a time.
This makes your system more difficult to maintain and troubleshoot.
Applies to swcopy, swinstall, and swremove.
• alternate_source=
Syntax is host:path, used when use_alternate_source default is set to true.
By default, this option is not defined. If the host portion is not specified, the local
host is used. If the path is not specified, the path sent by the command is used. See
the use_alternate_source option.
The protocol sequence and endpoint given by the option
rpc_binding_info_alt_source are used when the agent attempts to contact
an alternate source depot.
Applies only to swagent.
• ask=true
Executes a request script, which asks for a user response.
The ask option has three possible values;
true (Default for swask) Executes the request script (if one exists for
the selected software) and stores the user response in a file named
response.
false (Default for swinstall and swconfig.) Does not execute request
scripts.
as_needed Before executing a request script, swask first determines if a
response file already exists and executes the request script only if
the response file is absent from the control directory.
See “Requesting User Responses (swask)” (page 291) for more information on the
swask command and writing request scripts.
Applies to swask, swconfig, and swinstall.
• auto_kernel_build=true
Normally set to true. Specifies whether the removal of a kernel fileset should
rebuild the kernel or not. If the kernel rebuild succeeds, the system automatically
reboots. If set to false, the system continues to run the current kernel.
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