topic Re: Software depot management in Operating System - HP-UX

Software depot management

HP UNIX Support — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:47:39 GMT

On HP-UX 10.20 why do we have to register a depot in order to install software or patches?

Re: Software depot management

Ian Dennison_1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:50:02 GMT

Not to install! If you are trying to install from CD, then specify [CD Mount Point]/XSWGR1100, or whatever the subdirectory is on disk. If you are trying to install from an individual file, specify the full file name, including ".depot".

If you use 'swcopy' to copy software depots from one place to another, it is very clever and will register the depot for you automatically.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

Re: Software depot management

harry d brown jr — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:51:15 GMT

Being that you can have multiple depots its important that the system knows where you want to start.

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harry

Re: Software depot management

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:52:54 GMT

Having a depot resigstered means its visible to other servers so they can install from it remotely. ie. a public depot, otherwise a depot is only private (for the server it is on).

As already said, if you use swcopy to copy .depot files or software from a CD or tape then SD automatically registers the depot, otherwise do it yourself;
swreg -l depot @

Re: Software depot management

Trond Haugen — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:57:17 GMT

You don't have to register a depot if you will only sw-install or -copy locally.
If you want to access it from another system you have to register it.

Regards,
Trond

Re: Software depot management

HP UNIX Support — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:28:28 GMT

Thanks for the swift replies!