Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)
Table Of Contents
- Software Distributor Administration Guide
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction to Software Distributor
- SD-UX Overview
- SD-UX Concepts
- Using the GUI and TUI Commands
- The Terminal User Interface
- Starting the GUI/TUI Commands
- Window Components
- Opening and closing items in the object list
- Marking Items in the Object List
- Preselecting Host Files
- Software Selection Window
- Session and File Management—The File Menu
- Changing Software Views—The View Menu
- Changing Options and Refreshing the Object List—The Options Menu
- Performing Actions—The Actions Menu
- Getting Help—The Help Menu
- XToolkit Options and Changing Display Fonts
- Working from the Command Line
- 2 Installing Software
- Installation with swinstall
- Features and Limitations
- Installing with the GUI
- Installing from the Command Line
- Installation Tasks and Examples
- Updating to HP-UX 11i
- Installing Patches
- Recovering Updated Files
- Installing Software That Requires a System Reboot
- Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
- Re-installing Software Distributor
- Installing Multiple Versions
- Installing to an Alternate Root
- Compatibility Filtering and Checking
- Software Selection Checking
- Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)
- Verifying Your Installation (swverify)
- Installation with swinstall
- 3 Managing Installed Software
- 4 Managing Software Depots
- Depot Management Commands and Concepts
- Copying Software Depots
- Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
- Verifying Signed Software Signatures
- Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples
- Combining Patch Depots
- Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution
- Setting Depot Attributes
- Creating a Network Depot
- Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX
- Listing Registered Depots
- Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d)
- Source Depot Auditing
- Verifying a Depot (swverify -d)
- Removing Software from Depots
- Removing a Depot
- 5 HP-UX Patching and Patch Management
- 6 Using Jobs and the Job Browser
- 7 Remote Operations Overview
- 8 Reliability and Performance
- 9 SD-UX Security
- 10 Creating Software Packages
- Overview of the Packaging Process
- Identifying the Products to Package
- Adding Control Scripts
- Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
- Product Specification File Examples
- PSF Syntax
- PSF Object Syntax
- Selecting the PSF Layout Version
- PSF Value Types
- Product Specification File Semantics
- Re-Specifying Files
- Packaging the Software (swpackage)
- Packaging Tasks and Examples
- Registering Depots Created by swpackage
- Creating and Mastering a CD-ROM Depot
- Compressing Files to Increase Performance
- Packaging Security
- Repackaging or Modifying a Software Package
- Packaging In Place
- Following Symbolic Links in the Source
- Generating File Revisions
- Depots on Remote File Systems
- Verifying the Software Package
- Packaging Patch Software
- Writing to Multiple Tapes
- Making Tapes from an Existing Depot
- 11 Using Control Scripts
- Introduction to Control Scripts
- General Script Guidelines
- Packaging Control Scripts
- Using Environment Variables
- Execution of Control Scripts
- Execution of Other Commands by Control Scripts
- Control Script Input and Output
- File Management by Control Scripts
- Testing Control Scripts
- Requesting User Responses (swask)
- Request Script Tasks and Examples
- 12 Nonprivileged SD
- A Command Options
- B Troubleshooting
- Error Logging
- Common Problems
- Cannot Contact Target Host’s Daemon or Agent
- GUI Won’t Start or Missing Support Files
- Access To An Object Is Denied
- Slow Network Performance
- Connection Timeouts and Other WAN Problems
- Disk Space Analysis Is Incorrect
- Packager Fails
- Command Logfile Grows Too Large
- Daemon Logfile Is Too Long
- Cannot Read a Tape Depot
- Installation Fails
- swinstall or swremove Fails With a Lock Error
- Use of Square Brackets ([ and ]) Around an IPv6 Address Causes an Error
- Some SD commands do not work after network configuration changes
- C Replacing or Updating SD-UX
- D Software Distributor Files and File System Structure
- Glossary
- Index
in the Target system’s /etc/group. In this case, the gid attribute is
used to set the gid.
-t type Defines a file of type d (directory), s (symbolic), h (hard link), or a
(archive) for files that need not exist before packaging.
-v This option marks the file as volatile, meaning it can be modified
(that is, deleted) after it is installed without impacting the fileset.
Files that may have their attributes (size, last modified time, etc.)
changed through normal use after they are installed should be
specified in the PSF file as volatile (by specifying -v on the line
defining the file). swverify will not, by default, check file attributes
for files that have the is_volatile attribute set to true (see the
check_volatile option for swverify).
Error Messages
When processing existing files in a source directory, swpackage identifies the following four kinds
of errors:
• Cannot search directory (permission denied)
• Cannot read the file (permission denied)
• Unsupported file type encountered (source file must be a control script, regular file, directory,
hard link or symbolic link)
• File does not exist
Using Directory and File Keywords
The following examples illustrate the use of the directory and file keywords.
• Include all files under /build/hpux/mfg to be rooted under /usr:
directory /build/hpux/mfg=/usr
file *
• Include only certain files under /build/hpux/mfg/, to be rooted under /usr and
/var/adm/sw:
directory /build/hpux/mfg=/usr
file sbin/swinstall
file sbin/swcopy
. . .
directory /build/hpux/mfg=/var/adm/sw
file nls/swinstall.cat nls/en_US.88591/swinstall.cat
file defaults newconfig/defaults
file defaults defaults
• Explicitly list files, no directory mapping specified:
file /build/hpux/mfg/usr/bin/swinstall /usr/sbin/swinstall
file /build/hpux/mfg/usr/bin/swcopy /usr/sbin/swcopy
file /build/hpux/mfg/data/nls/swinstall.cat
/var/adm/sw/nls/en_US.88591/swinstall.cat
file /build/hpux/mfg/data/defaults
/var/adm/sw/newconfig/defaults
file /build/hpux/mfg/data/defaults /var/adm/sw/defaults
• Use all specification types to include files:
directory /build/hpux/mfg/usr=/usr
file *
directory /build/hpux/mfg/data=/var/adm/sw
file defaults newconfig/defaults
file /build/hpux/mfg/data/defaults=/var/adm/sw/defaults
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