Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

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3.2 Modifying the IPD (swmodify)
SD-UX keeps track of software installations, products, and filesets on your system with
the Installed Products Database (IPD) for installed software and with catalog files for
software in depots.
Both the IPD and catalog files are created and constantly modified by other SD-UX
operations (swinstall, swcopy, and swremove), they are not directly accessible if
you want to change the information they contain. If you need to edit the information
in either the IPD or in any depots’ catalog files, you must use the swmodify command.
The swmodify command adds, modifies, or deletes software objects or attributes
defined in a software depot, primary root or alternate root. It is a direct interface to a
depot’s catalog files or a root’s Installed Products Database. It does not change the files
that make up the object, it only manipulates the information that describes the object.
Using swmodify, you can
• Add new bundle, product, subproduct, fileset, control script or file definitions to
existing objects
• Remove the description of software objects from a depot catalog file or root IPD
• Change attribute values for any existing object.
• Define attributes for new objects that you add.
The equivalent IPD files for a depot are called catalog files. When a depot is created or
modified using swcopy, catalog files are built (by default in /var/spool/sw/
catalog) that describe the depot and its contents.
3.2.1 IPD Contents
Located in the directory /var/adm/sw/products, the IPD is a series of files and
subdirectories that contain information about all the products that are installed under
the root directory (/). This information includes “tags” or product names, one-line title
fields, paragraph-or-longer description text, long README files, copyright information,
vendor information and part numbers on each product installed. In addition, the IPD
contains revision information and a user-targeted architecture field including the four
uname attributes (operating system name, release, version and hardware machine
type). Here is what the IPD INFO file for a product called “Accounting” looks like:
fileset
tag ACCOUNTNG
data_model_revision 2.4
instance_id 1
control_directory ACCOUNTNG
size 292271
revision B.11.00
description Vendor Name: Hewlett-Packard Company
Product Name: Accounting
Fileset Name: ACCOUNTING
Text: "HP-UX System Accounting feature set. Use these
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