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

State An attribute that indicates the current state of the fileset. During installation, software is transitioned
through the following states: non-existent, transient, installed, and configured. During removal,
software is transitioned through these states: configured, installed, transient, and non-existent. If
a task fails during a transient state, the state is set to corrupt.
Subproducts An optional grouping of filesets, used to partition a product that contains many filesets or to offer
the user different views of the filesets.
Superseded The state in which a patch was applied but was then replaced by a superseding patch. Other
patch states include applied and committed.
Superseding patch A patch that supersedes all previous patches to a given fileset.
SW-DIST A software product that provides all of the SD-UX functionality. SW-DIST is included on your
HP-UX 11i media. If SW-DIST is damaged, missing, or corrupted on your system, you cannot
install or copy any HP-UX software that is packaged in the SD-UX format, including a newer
SW-DIST product. You can re-install SD-UX with the install-sd command.
swacl A SD-UX command that allows you to modify Access Control List permissions that provide software
security.
swadm In SD-UX security, the default user identification group.
swagent The SD-UX agent program that makes changes to depots and roots. It is directed by the controller
and scheduled by the daemon
swagentd The SD-UX daemon that provides various services, including: initiation of communication between
the controller and agent; serving one or more depots to multiple requesting agents on remote
hosts.
swask A SD-UX command that lets you run an interactive request script to get a response from the user.
Request scripts can also be run by the swconfig and swinstall commands.
swconfig A SD-UX command that configures previously installed software and make the software ready
for use.
swcopy A SD-UX command that copies software from a software source to a depot or from one depot to
another. The swcopy command can add products to an existing depot, replace products already
on a depot, or create a new depot.
swgettools A SD-UX command used in previous HP-UX releases to install the new SW-DIST product from
media. This command has been replaced by install-sd and update-ux.
swinstall A SD-UX command that installs software. swinstall may also perform software configuration.
swlist A SD-UX command that lists software objects, their attributes, and their organization. It lists both
installed software and software contained within a depot.
swlock A file that contains the read or write access to software objects and ACLs.
swmodify A SD-UX command that lets you change information in the installed products database or depot
catalog files.
swpackage A SD-UX command that uses a product specification file (PSF) to organize software products and
package them into a depot. The depot can be accessed directly by SD-UX commands or mastered
onto CD-ROM or tape.
swreg A SD-UX command used to register or unregister depots.
swremove A SD-UX command that removes previously installed software or removes packaged software
from a depot.
swverify A SD-UX command that verifies installed software or depot software for correctness and
completeness.
Systems Computers, either stand-alone or networked to other computers. See local host.
Tag In packaging, a keyword that defines the distribution tag or software object’s name attribute for
the destination depot (media).
Tape Depot A software depot stored in a tar (tape archive) format. Within the tape depot, the archive, directory
and file entries are organized using the same structure as any other SD-UX format depot. Tape
depots such as cartridge tapes, DAT and 9-track tape are referred to by the file system path to
the tape drive’s device file.
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