RE: How do you add an entry to swlist for reference purposes?

[Nick Tarmey_3]

Hi folks!

I'm using Ignite to install various golden images on different servers. In order to differenciate between different installs and see what version of the image is being used I would like to have an entry in the swlist showing a reference to the image description. Any ideas how to do this?

thanks in advance!
Nick.

[Bill McNAMARA_1 · Accepted solution]

In the INDEX file you'll have something like this:

cfg "HP-UX B.10.20 archive" {
description "The ARCHIVE B.11.00 release with patches."
"/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/config"
"/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/core11.cfg"
"/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/patch_bundle.cfg"
"/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/misc_patch_bundle.cfg"
"/var/opt/ignite/config.local"
} = TRUE


add the line: post_config_script += "/var/opt/ignite/scripts/lastly.ksh"
to any config (cfg file)

This script can then do something like the following:

echo "$(/usr/bin/banner lovely image)" >> /etc/issue
echo "installed on $(/usr/bin/date)" >> /etc/issue

Rather than modifying the swlist.

Although if you really want you can modify the swlist by playing around with the files in /var/adm/sw/products/

Later,
Bill

[Scott Marer]

I suppose you coud create a bogus product :

# vi /tmp/.psf
product
tag
fileset
tag
:wq!
# swpackage -s /tmp/.psf
# swinstall

Replace with a descriptive name, no spaces...

This will create an entry in swlist output...