HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

A local host is any system where software is to be installed or managed.
A network host contains one or more depots and is connected to a network. It can act
as a common software installation source for other network clients. You copy software
from a depot to the network host. From the network host, you can copy software to
systems as needed.
Figure 5-2 SD-UX Roles
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Software Package Builder (SPB)
Software Package Builder (SPB) provides a visual method to create and edit software
packages using the HP-UX Software Distributor (SD) package format. Once software
is packaged, it can easily be transferred to a distribution medium, mass produced, and
installed by administrators.
The SPB graphical user interface (GUI) provides a window into the software package
structure, showing attributes that can be set for each package element. SPB dynamically
loads packaging policies and validates software package attributes against these policies.
The SPB command line interface can also perform validation of software package
attributes against policies.
Using SPB you can do the following:
• Create a product specification file (PSF) to organize files into products, filesets,
and optionally, into bundles and subproducts.
• Set attribute values to define the software package characteristics such as revision,
architecture, file permissions, and dependencies.
186 Managing Software