Software Distributor defects fixed in HP-UX 11i v1, v2 and v3
Table 7 Defects fixed in December 2007 (continued)
DescriptionDefect ID
The swlist man page does not show an example of how to list all patches
on a system, and their current state. That example has now been added to
the swlist man page.
JAGaf88718
The swpackage command issues an unexpected warning when files
packaged into different filesets are hard linked in the packager source area.
The warning says hard links across filesets are not supported, and each file
will be recorded as a regular file. The swpackage command has been fixed
to not issue that warning, but otherwise to not change behavior.
JAGag20903
The swinstall command issues a confusing message when the
patch_match_target feature selects nothing and fails. The message is
improved to list the potential reasons why nothing is selected.
JAGag29971
Corruption has been found occasionally in the global INDEX file in the IPD
(Installed Product Database). SD has been changed to provide more
information about file I/O failures that can potentially corrupt files in the
IPD. Also, corruption avoidance techniques for INDEX files are now also
applied to INFO files in the IPD.
JAGag33541
Option description improvements were made in the sys.defaults file and
some Software Distributor man pages.
JAGag34817
When the local hostname is included in the "-d" or "@" parameters for
swpackage, the hostname is not discarded and is instead included as part
of the path. The swpackage(1m) manpage has been changed to clarify that
swpackage treats everything entered after "-d" or "@" as part of the path.
The swpackage command has been changed to log the absolute path name
in the swreg message when a relative path is entered.
JAGag38047
Symlinks are always packaged with mode 0755, and are packaged with uid
and gid taking priority over owner name and group name. The swpackage
command is fixed to package symlinks to have mode, owner, and group
set correctly.
JAGag42980
When a patch fileset is reselected because the dependencies for the patch
fileset that supersedes it cannot be resolved, swagent generates an ERROR
for the reselection. SD has been changed to only log the condition as a NOTE
since the reselection is handled correctly by swagent.
JAGag43059
A dependency on a bundle causes autoselection of the bundle contents, but
does not select the bundle wrapper. SD is fixed to also select the bundle
wrapper in this situation.
JAGag44536
A GUI/TUI swinstall session generates error code 308 when doing
match-target and an explicit software selection is made at the same time.
SD has been fixed to work correctly in this situation.
JAGag44900
The copy mode of swpackage with run_as_superuser=false fails with
ERROR: Cannot open host file "/var/adm/sw/host_object". Permission denied
(13). This is now fixed in swpackage.
JAGag45664
September 2007 Web Release
SW-DIST fileset revision B.11.31.0709.311
whatstring SD-UX/B.11.31.00.156, UDL_11.31_Sep07OEUR_IC311
This release, B.11.31.0709.311, can be downloaded from the web. For more information, see http://www.hp.com/go/SD/
Defect Fixes 11