topic Re: Creating one depot from 3 depots in Operating System - HP-UX

Creating one depot from 3 depots

Vincent Farrugia — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:21:16 GMT

How can I do this please?

Any answers will be appreciated and rewarded.

Thanks,
Vince

Re: Creating one depot from 3 depots

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:28:30 GMT

swcopy all the depots into one.

Use swcopy in interactive mode.. it's easier.
#swcopy

Then create the single depot.

You can make a bundle with the make_bundles command.
If you don't have this command get ignite.

Later,
Bill

Re: Creating one depot from 3 depots

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:29:19 GMT

Take a look at the swcopy(1m) man page. Use swcopy to copy the contents of two of your depots into the third. If there are patches in these depots, remeber to use cleanup(1m) on the depot when your done.

HTH

Duncan

Re: Creating one depot from 3 depots

Robin Wakefield — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:30:26 GMT

Hi Vince,

swcopy -s {source depot1} \* @ {target depot}
swcopy -s {source depot2} \* @ {target depot}
swcopy -s {source depot3} \* @ {target depot}

Rgds, Robin.

Re: Creating one depot from 3 depots

Duncan Edmonstone — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:37:13 GMT

Something to watch out for when copying from one depot to another is that swcopy still does all the dependency & pre-requisite checking that happens during an swinstall, so if for example you are copying a patch which has a kernel fileset defined as a pre-requisite, then the copy can fail on analysis if the fileset isn't in your depot even though you know it is installed on all your servers. Get round this by setting the

enforce_dependencies=false

Option

NEVER use this option on an actual install.

Re: Creating one depot from 3 depots

Vincent Farrugia — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:54:12 GMT

Thanks guys, problem solved. Case closed.