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

Generate depot

Marcelo De Florio_1 — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:00:32 GMT

How can i generate a depot file with AdvJournalFS (software, to install in another machine) ?

thanks
MDF

Re: Generate depot

Alexander M. Ermes — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:24:34 GMT

Hi there.
Read the manpages of swpackage.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: Generate depot

Carsten Krege — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:39:16 GMT

Either copy the software from CD to a filesytem depot and install from there:

hostA # swcopy -s /SD_CDROM B3929BA @ /var/spool/sw
hostB # swinstall -s hostA:/var/spool/sw

or copy into a file depot and make a single file from it that you can mail or ftp etc:

hostA # swcopy -s /SD_CDROM B3929BA @ /var/spool/sw
hostA # swpackage -x target_type=tape -s /var/spool/sw B3929BA @
host B # ftp> get

Carsten

Re: Generate depot

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:46:39 GMT

Hi Marcelo,

If I understand your question then the answer is swpackage. However, this is a very difficult task the first time especially if you
have to create control scripts for checkinstall,preinstall,... . The man pages just touch on this topic.

Fortunately, you can download this document
from: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90127/B2355-90127.html

It will step you through the entire process.

Regards, Clay

Re: Generate depot

Deshpande Prashant — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:50:51 GMT

HI
You can create a central software depot on seperate file system and install software/patches from depot to any machine on network.
On depot machine use swcopy to copy product/patch in to depot.

swcopy -s @

On any machine on network use swinstall and select Network drive option for software source and select the host where your depot resides.

But I think, the products that need codeword to unlock from CD, may not be able to install from Depot. Adv. VxFS need to be unlocked using codeword from app. cd.

Thanks.
Prashant.