Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

B
Base software Software that will be modified by a patch.
Building
phase
Packaging the source files and information into a product, and creating/merging the product into
the destination depot/media.
Bundles A collection of filesets that are encapsulated for a specific purpose. By specifying a bundle, all
products or filesets under that bundle are automatically included in the operation.
C
Cache File A file that contains the name and attributes of targets selected by swinstall or swcopy.
Catalog/Catalog directory
An area within a depot that contains all the information needed by SD-UX to define the
organization and contents of the products stored in the depot. It includes a global INDEX file and
a directory of information for each product version in the depot. It is sometimes referred to as
the catalog directory.
Category This keyword defines the “category” attribute for the product object. It refers to the type of
software being packaged.
CD-ROM Compact Disc-Read Only Memory or a SD-UX depot that resides on a CD-ROM.
Centralized
management
See remote operations.
Checkinstall
script
An optional, script associated with a product or fileset, executed by swinstall during the analysis
phase. The result returned by the script determines if the fileset can be installed or updated.
Checkremove
script
An optional script associated with a fileset that is executed during the swremove analysis phase.
The result returned by the script determines if the fileset can be removed.
checksum Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), a computed value that is compared with stored data to tell if
a file has been corrupted during transfer.
CLI Command Line Interface. See Command Line User Interface.
Client Usually refers to diskless server computer. Previous versions of SD-UX supported diskless clients.
CLUI See Command Line User Interface. All SD-UX commands can be run from the command line. See
also GUI, TUI, and IUI.
Codeword To protect software from unauthorized installation, HP (and other vendors) use special codewords
and customer identification numbers to lock the software to a particular owner. These codewords
and customer IDs are provided to you when you purchase the software or receive it as update.
Command
line options
Optional parameters for a command entered with the command itself at the HP-UX command
line prompt. See also default options.
Command
Line User
Interface
(CLI/CLUI)
Text-formatted commands and options entered at an HP-UX command line prompt or executed
by a script. SD-UX also has a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for
the sd, swinstall, swcopy, swlist, and swremove commands.
Committed The state in which a patch is applied and rollback files have been deleted. Other patch states
include applied and superseded and committed/superseded.
Committed/superseded
A patch state in which the patch is both committed and superseded.
356 Glossary