Software Package Builder 3.0 User's Guide
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Chapter 116
Starting Software Package Builder
To launch SPB from the command line, enter:
#/opt/spb/bin/spb
The SPB GUI will launch, and by default the application will use the
packaging policy rules file for the HP-UX version you are running on
your system.
About the Policy
Rules Files
The packaging policy rules file is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)
formatted file that describes the legal PSF syntax and any field value
constraints for your PSF.
You can use SPB to package software for a range of HP-UX releases,
older or newer than the system running SPB. To package software for a
newer version of HP-UX, specify the appropriate policy file as a
command line argument. To package software for an older release, use
the default, since policy files are backward compatible with previous
releases. For example, you can use the HP-UX 11i v3 policy file to
package software for a system running HP-UX 11i v2, but to package
software for an HP-UX 11i v3 system from a system running HP-UX 11i
v2, specify the HP-UX 11i v3 policy file via the command line.
The policies supplied with SPB are located in /opt/spb/data and are
named as follows:
• For HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) - the default policy file is
113XPolicies_SD.xml
• For HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) - the default policy file is
112XPolicies_SD.xml
• For HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) - the default policy file is
11XPolicies_SD.xml
Specifying the
Packaging Policy
Rules File
Specify a packaging policy rules file other than the default by using the
-r option from the command line.
To launch SPB and specify the policy rules file, enter:
spb -r /opt/spb/data/<Myrules.xml>