Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

Compatibility
Filtering
The ability of swinstall to filter the software available from a source according to the host’s uname
attributes. Software products are created to run on specific computer hardware and operating
systems. Many versions of the same products may exist, each of which runs on a different
combination of computer hardware and operating system. By default, swinstall does not allow
selection and installation of incompatible software.
Compatible
Software
A software product that will operate on a given hardware system. Software that passes compatibility
filtering for a local host. Also see Incompatible Software.
Configure
Script
An optional script associated with a fileset and automatically executed by swinstall (or manually
executed by swconfig) after the installation of filesets is complete.
Container
ACL Template
A special ACL (global_soc_template) that is used to create initial ACLs for depot and roots.
See also product ACL template.
Contents A keyword used to assign filesets to subproducts. This allows a fileset to be contained in multiple
subproducts.
Control Script Optional scripts packaged with software or added to software by modifying the IPD. Control
scripts are run during swconfig, swinstall, swremove, or swverify operations. Control scripts
may include: configure or unconfigure for swconfig; checkinstall, preinstall, postinstall and
configure scripts for swinstall; the checkremove, unconfigure, preremove, and postremove scripts
for swremove; and the fix or verify script for swverify.
Controller The SD-UX programs or commands (swinstall, swcopy, etc.) that are invoked by the user on the
local host and that direct the actions of an SD-UX agent.
Copyright A keyword that defines the copyright attribute for the destination depot (media) being
created/modified by swpackage. It refers to the copyright information for the software product.
Corequisite A dependency in which a fileset requires that another fileset be installed or configured at the same
time. For example, if fileset A requires that fileset B is installed at the same time, fileset B is a
corequisite.
Critical Fileset A fileset containing software critical to the correct operation of the host. Critical filesets are those
with the reboot and/or kernel fileset flags. During swinstall’s load phase, critical filesets are loaded
and customized before other filesets.
Cumulative
patch
See superseding patch.
D
Daemon The SD-UX program that schedules the agent to perform software management tasks. On a SD-UX
controller, the daemon polls the job queue for scheduled jobs.
data_model_revision
The internal attribute for SD-UX INDEX file syntax. Layout_version 1.0 uses data_model_revision
2.40; whereas, layout_version 0.8 uses data_model_revision 2.10.
DCE Distributed Computing Environment. Technology used by SD-UX for distributed communications.
Controllers, daemons, and agents communicate using the DCE Remote Procedure Call (RPC).
Default Hosts
File
The file (either/var/adm/sw/defaults.hosts for system level defaults) or $HOME/.sw/
defaults.hosts for user level defaults) that contains the default list of hosts for SD-UX
commands.
Default
Options
Changeable values that affect SD-UX command behaviors and policies. Default options are
contained in the defaults file. See Appendix A (page 303) for more information.
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