topic Re: Automatic swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

Automatic swinstall

Craig A. Sharp — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:16:47 GMT

How can I get swinstall to run in an automatic mode? I have a depot with only two things in it and both need to be installed. Is there a way that I can do this for my Jr. SA's? I dont want them to have interaction with swinstall.

Thanks,

Craig

Re: Automatic swinstall

Anshumali — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:23:58 GMT

swinstall -s \*
You may use various options of -x like mount_all_filesystems, auto_reboot

Man swinstall

Re: Automatic swinstall

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:24:06 GMT

Hi Craig:

# swinstall -s /patches/swdepot -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true

# swinstall -s /tmp/depot \*

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Automatic swinstall

Craig A. Sharp — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:38:31 GMT

I have tried the swinstall -s from the command line and it still brings up the interface. Is there something that I need to change to get swinstall to run unattended?

Re: Automatic swinstall

Srimalik — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:04:24 GMT

you need to give the name of package also to start in non-interactive mode.

Say your software location is /tmp/depots
and there is a package called bash in it.

swinstall -s /tmp/depots bash

if you want to install everything use:

swinstall -s /tmp/depot \*

Re: Automatic swinstall

Bob E Campbell — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:27:35 GMT

The interface will always start if there are any unanswered questions. So:

1. When you build your depot make sure that all dependencies are included

2. If a reboot *might* be required add "-x autoreboot=true"

3. You must specify what is to be installed. "\*" says everything in depot, you can also use a number of other methods to identify bundles or collections.

4. Any other option that you might think is needed (including write_remote_files) starts to get into the big hammer world and should be thought through.