topic Re: Creating software depot in Operating System - HP-UX

Creating software depot

Daniel Fourie — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:30:07 GMT

Hi all

Can someone please help me in creating a software depot of the two NNM7.5 CD's so that I can copy the depot to another machine and install it there.

Regards

Re: Creating software depot

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:31:51 GMT

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=951560
[ subject: Create depot- How To ]

-Arun

Re: Creating software depot

Stuart Abramson — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:50:50 GMT

1. If you get a depot CD from HP, copy it to a disk file depot like this:

log in as root
swcopy -s /dev/rmt/0m -x enforce_dependencies=false \
\* @ /depots/

2. If you want to convert a depot to a sequential file, to copy to another machine, then do this:

swpackage -s /depots/patch11.0 -d /tmp/filename \
-x target_type=tape

3. But if you make a depot on machine A, then to install on machine B, all you have to do is:

swinstall -s A:/depots/

You don't have to copy the file...

Re: Creating software depot

Stuart Abramson — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:52:05 GMT

/dev/rmt/0m above is a from a tape. Use source depot name if from CD (i.e. - /cdrom).

Re: Creating software depot

Dorothee Singer — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 05:45:55 GMT

this one really helped me a lot!!

doro