Software Distributor Requirements, Issues Fixed, and Workarounds HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3

Table 22 HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 Fixes (continued)
DescriptionDefect ID
In the swremove man page an example of how to remove all software from
a depot now shows a backslash before the asterisk in the swremove command
line. Previously, the example did not show a backslash before the asterisk.
JAGaf05956
A message is logged containing the path "//var" when "-x logdetail=true" is
set on the swinstall command line, and a patch is installed that causes old
JAGaf07705
copies of the patched files to be saved. The messages are fixed to show "/var"
instead.
In some cases, SD incorrectly attempts host lookups on strings that do not
represent hosts. When a DNS server is down or if DNS is otherwise
JAGaf10372
misconfigured, these lookups must time-out before the lookup fails. When
many such lookups are performed, the cumulative delay caused by these
timeouts can be significant.
When performing operations on an already-installed bundle, missing contents
result in warning messages even when the contents was not compatible with
JAGaf10873
the target system. For swverify, such messages should be issued as an
informational note, and for swconfig and swremove, these messages aren't
useful at all and should be suppressed.
SD commands are enhanced to handle 256 character hostnames on platforms
that support large hostnames. This enhancement is implemented in SD in a
JAGaf15245
way that is compatible with older releases of HP-UX, so this fix can be installed
on systems that do not support large hostnames.
When a value in /stand/system is commented using the comment indicator
"*", the comment syntax is merged with the value. This results in invalid syntax
for mk_kernel.
JAGaf18192
When a configure or remove operation fails during the execution of the
swconfig startup script, extraneous output from the swconfig or swremove
JAGaf18336
command is included in the /etc/rc.log file, making it difficult to locate the
pertinent error information. Now, only the standard error output is included
when an operation fails.
Two objects used to obtain bundle and product information from the SD
Provider are not being freed. This results in a memory leak that causes the
cimserver daemon to grow in size.
JAGaf21724
Complex dependencies on patches can cause the SD agent or other SD
commands to abort in some circumstances, due to a problem in handling
OR'ed dependencies.
JAGaf22414
When swmodify is called to remove a product's entry from the IPD and the
product's filesets are not removed too, then swmodify does not remove the
JAGaf23134
product and returns a warning message, but also returns an exit code of 0
indicating success. This condition should produce an error and return an exit
code of 1.
Patch selection and dependency resolution becomes unacceptably slow when
operating on roots or depots that have huge numbers of interdependent filesets.
A number of enhancements were made to reduce performance bottlenecks.
JAGaf24699
When in locale fr_CA.iso88591, English messages are displayed for SD
commands such as swinstall, swlist, etc. This problem is fixed by linking
JAGaf26194
swagent.cat, swagentd.cat, swinstall.cat, swpackage.cat, and swutil.cat from
the /usr/lib/nls/msg/fr_FR.iso85591 directory to the
/usr/lib/nls/msg/fr_CA.iso88591 directory.
Some formatted messages written to SD logfiles are written up to column 79,
although most are written up to column 72. The control_utils msg() function is
incorrectly writing messages beyond column 72.
JAGaf26547
use of 'get_os_rev' in control scripts modifies IFS. Some control scripts may
not work correctly when IFS is modified.
JAGaf27207
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