Where did the file come from?

[Rick vonR]

For any given file on the system, is there way to tell which depot, bundle, product, fileset it came from?
In AIX, I can use lslpp -w
In Solaris, I can grep through the contents file.
How can I do this in HP-UX?
We are using 11i v1 but the question is in general.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

swlist has a -a fileset parameter that lets you get a full list of the files associated with the depot.

A careful look at the swlist man page might provide a clue or a command.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5900-0307/index.html

SEP

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

YOu can look at the "file" level of your Installed Product Database with 'swlist'. For example, if I wanted to find where the '/usr/lib/tztab' file comes from I could do:

# swlist -l file |grep -i tztab
OS-Core.CORE-ENG-A-MAN: /usr/share/man/man4.Z/tztab.4
OS-Core.CORE-JPN-E-MAN: /usr/share/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man4.Z/tztab.4
OS-Core.CORE-JPN-S-MAN: /usr/share/man/ja_JP.SJIS/man4.Z/tztab.4
OS-Core.UX-CORE: /usr/lib/tztab
OS-Core.UX-CORE: /usr/newconfig/usr/lib/tztab
OS-Core.UX-CORE: /usr/old/usr/newconfig/usr/lib/tztab
# PHCO_39173 1.0 tztab(4) cumulative patch
PHCO_39173.UX-CORE: /usr/newconfig/usr/lib/tztab
PHCO_39173.UX-CORE: /usr/old/usr/newconfig/usr/lib/tztab

Regards!

...JRF...

[Michael Steele_2]

Hi

'what / which' will give some version information which you can cross reference with swlist.

'what /sbin/ksh'

/usr/bin/ksh:
$Revision: B.11.11_LR
Wed Nov 8 19:55:23 PST 2000 $
$ B.11.11_LR Oct 27 2000 00:40:10 $
Version 11/16/88

[Kapil Jha]

#swlist -a install_source -l product

is the command u probably looking for.

for more information man swlist its has a lot of options.

BR,
Kapil+

[Rick vonR]

Thank you very much for your responses.
Mr. Ferguson hit the nail on the head first. I can use that command and then Kapil's command to figure out just how it was installed.
Thank you all. Points have been assigned.

[Rick vonR]

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