topic Re: depot problems in Operating System - HP-UX

depot problems

Chris Fadrowski — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:27:44 GMT

I am trying to register a depot on a local machine. When i do a
swreg -l depot /u01/depot
i get errors stating that no depot software in /u01/depot. Excuse me in advance, but do i need to swcopy of software first to this destination so i can register it?

Re: depot problems

Helen French — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:36:01 GMT

Hi,

'swreg' normally using for registering a depot created by 'swpackage'. By default, the swcopy command registers newly created depots.

You can use 'swreg' to explicitly register/unregister a depot when the automatic behaviors of swcopy, swinstall, swpackage and swremove do not suffice.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: depot problems

Wodisch — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 03:36:21 GMT

Hello,

"swreg" can only be used to register an existing depot, so you have to use "swpackage" or "swcopy" first.
That problem does not exist for un-registering depots, though...

HTH,
Wodisch

Re: depot problems

Michael Tully — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 03:46:35 GMT

Hi,

Here is the procedure I've used once I've downloaded the patches and placed into a directory.

# mkdir /tmp/patches
# for i in PH*
> do
> sh $i
> done

# for i in PH*.depot
> do
> swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @/tmp/patches
> done

HTH
-Michael

Re: depot problems

Steffi Jones_1 — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:26:07 GMT

Hi Chris,

make sure you don't have a typo in the command line. Sometimes that is the reason for the error message.
Swinstall is very case sensitive.

Take care,

Steffi JOnes

Re: depot problems

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:48:59 GMT

Hi Chris,

you should first copy some depot software to the directory using swcopy or swpackge and then register the depot.

Hope this helps.

Regds