Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

• To display all attributes for products, subproducts and filesets, use swlist -v

-l fileset.

• To display all attributes for products, subproducts, filesets and files, use swlist

-v -l file.

The table below provides a sample listing of the kinds of attributes that swlist will

display. Not all these attributes exist for each software level or object. This list may

change depending on vendor-supplied information. Do not use this list as the official

list of all attributes. To get a complete list of the attributes for a particular level or object,

use the format:

swlist -v -l level

(see example above) or use

swlist -v software_selections

(see example below).

Table 3-6 Sample Attributes

DescriptionAttribute

Describes the target system(s) supported by the productarchitecture

Type of softwarecategory

Production time for a distribution mediamod_time

Detailed descriptive information about the objectdescription

Uniquely identifies this software productinstance_id

Long/official name for the objecttitle

Permission mode of the filemode

Last modification time for the filemtime

Owner of file (string)owner

Full pathname for the filepath

A fileset that the current fileset needs (configured) to be functional

corequisite

A fileset that the current fileset needs to install or configure correctlyprerequisite

Traditional readme-like information, release notes, etc.readme

Revision number for an objectrevision

Size in bytes; reflects the size of all contained filesetssize

Current state of the filesetstate

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