topic How to change /var/spool/sw depot path in Operating System - HP-UX

How to change /var/spool/sw depot path

mogiro — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:37:41 GMT

Hi,
I want to create a depot folder in a server to store the depot files to be accessed from another servers by swinstall. How can I do that?
Thans in advance

Re: How to change /var/spool/sw depot path

Bill Hassell — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:43:05 GMT

The directory /var/spool/sw is useless to another server. This directory contains the history of software installed on the local system. If you were to use this same data on another system, perhaps to save some space, it would be quite likely serious problems would occur when running swinstall on the remote systems.

If you are trying to save disk space, use the cleanup command to reduce the number of superseded patches (man cleanup). If you are trying to make software bundles available to other systems for installation, use the swcopy on your local system to create a composite bundle. The use swreg on the local system to make this bundle visible to all other HP-UX systems (no NFS required or recommended).

Re: How to change /var/spool/sw depot path

Dennis Handly — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:16:53 GMT

This is a duplicate of the following thread. Please reply in the following link:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1196935

>Bill: The directory /var/spool/sw is useless to another server. This directory contains the history of software installed on the local system.

Are you sure about that? I don't have that on several systems. Others only have another copy of swagent.log.
The IPD is under /var/adm/sw/products/.

Re: How to change /var/spool/sw depot path

Torsten. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:11:28 GMT

You can copy the software to /var/spool/sw or any other directory with swcopy. You only need to swreg this depot.

/var/spool/sw is simply the default.

If you run swinstall without other specific options, the system will search in this directory.

I guess Bill mixed up
/var/spool/sw
and
/var/adm/sw

Re: How to change /var/spool/sw depot path

Bill Hassell — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:52:58 GMT

Yep, you're correct, I was thinking /var/adm/sw whish unique to each system. /var/spool/sw is a common place for depots. To share the depots, just use swreg to allow all clients to see the packages.