Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)

• autorecover=false
This option permits automatic recovery of original filesets if an installation error occurs. The
cost is a temporary increase in disk space and slower performance. The default value of false
causes swinstall to overwrite original files as a fileset is updated. If an error occurs during
the installation (e.g. network failure), then the original files are lost, and you must reinstall the
fileset.
If set to true, all files are saved as backup copies until the current fileset finishes loading. If an
error occurs during installation, the fileset’s original files are restored, and swinstall
continues to the next fileset in the product or the product postinstall script.
When set to true, this option also affects scripts. For example, if a preinstall script fails, this
option causes the corresponding unpreinstall script to execute.
Applies only to swinstall.
• autorecover_product=false
By default, swinstall overwrites old files. If a load error occurs, the product is marked
“corrupt” and you must retry the install.
When this option is true, swinstall saves all product files as backups until the product
finishes loading successfully, then removes the backups. This lets swinstall automatically
recover files if the load fails. The trade-off is a temporary increase in disk space use and slower
performance
Note: The autorecover operation does not work properly if any software has pre-install scripts
that move or remove files. This includes HP-UX operating system files.
Applies only to swinstall.
• autoremove_job=false
SD-UX stores small amounts of information (such as job status or controller or agent logfiles)
about each job. You can display this information from the Job Browser or with swjob. Running
very large numbers of jobs may take up significant disk space.
Setting this option to true prevents SD-UX from storing the job information. The trade-off is that
you can no longer display the job information.
This option is automatically set to true when run_as_superuser is set to true.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swremove and swverify.
• autoselect_dependencies=true
Causes SD-UX to automatically select requisites when software is being selected. At the default
value of true, dependent software is automatically selected when you select software with
requisites. If set to false, automatic selections are not made to resolve requisites.
The autoselect_minimum_dependencies option is ignored when this option is set to false.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall and swverify.
• autoselect_dependents=false
Causes swconfig and swremove to automatically select dependents when software is being
selected. When set to true, and any software on which other software depends is selected,
SD-UX makes sure that the dependents are also selected. If they are not already selected, they
are automatically selected for you. If set to false, dependents are not automatically selected.
A dependent fileset has established either a prerequisite, corequisite, or exrequisite on the
selected fileset. The default value of false prevents automatic selection of dependent software.
Specifying true causes SD-UX to automatically select dependent software.
Applies to swconfig and swremove.
• autoselect_minimum_dependencies=false
Controls the automatic selection (marked for ask/config/copy/install/verify) of the first left-most
dependency in a list of OR dependencies that satisfies a requisite, when another dependency
in the list that also satisfies the requisite is explicitly selected by the user.
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