Can it be done?

[Kelli Ward]

Hi All,
I have an older system with software on it I would like to package. Not sure if I can.

Is it possible to take an installed software bundle and rebundle it?

If so, what would get me started?

Thanks,
Kel

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Kel,

Yes, most of the time you can.
One thing to be careful with is "host customized" stuff i.e if any config files that have host specific info in them or file/dir names containing the hostname.

Do a man on swpackage for details. But essentially you create a psf (Product Specification File) that spells out everything about the pkg you're creating & then run the swpackage to create the pkg. You can then swcopy it to your standard depot.

Here's a good link for the whole process

http://www.docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90154/B2355-90154_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90154/00/00/49-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90154/00/00/49-toc.html&searchterms=swpackage&queryid=20030206-151043

Good Luck,
Jeff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Kelli:

Have a look at 'swpackage'. For instance, to copy a depot of software to tape you can do:

# swpackage -x target_type=tape -s /tmp/depot \* @ /dev/rmt/0m

Regards!

...JRF...

[Chris Vail]

Your message isn't entirely clear. Is this HP or 3rd Party software that was installed as a bundle? If so, you might still have the session log from the original swinstall. If you do, you can use it to guide you to the files that you need to create in your new bundle. Search this forum for threads about swcopy for details.


Chris

[Michael Tully]

Hi Kel,

You can use 'swpackage'. Besides there being a man page for it, there should be loads of postings on it.

You can the on-line document here:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90754/B2355-90754.html

Cheers
Michael

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Kel,

It can be done with some patience. Most of the packages come with preinstall, postinstall,checkinstall etc., that you find them under /var/adm/sw/products/SOFTWARE/product.

You can get the individual files by doing

swlist -l file SOFTWARE

This will display each file in the SOFTWARE attached to each product inside it.

Take a list of them and take copies of *install and *remove scripts from the /var/adm/sw... directory and create a psf file.

Once you have the psf file, you can use swpackage command to package it up.

Look at man swpackage and man 4 swpackage to get started.

-Sri

[Kelli Ward]

Hi all,

Chris - In other words, I have old software that we need to use. We don't have it, except already installed in a system. Rather than just rely on system backup, I would like to have it in our depot as a failsafe in case we need to reconfigure the system.

Everyone else - I have used swpackage a number of times in the past to generate customized patch bundles. So basically, if I genereate a .psf file with a list of all of the files in it, as well as the other variables, I can package that up? (There is no hostname customization to my knowledge. 99.9% sure)
There are a couple of related bundles I would like to copy, one has a kernel driver in it. Will this package properly if I generate the list right?

Thanks,
Kel

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi (again) Kel,

Sure can.
For that product that adds a driver to the kernel, in the fileset definition you'll be using
is_kernel=true
is_reboot=true
To force the kernel build & reboot.

It's a little more complex that a normal package - but certainly can be done.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Kel,

As I mentioned before, you need to capture the sw scripts from /var/adm/sw/products/(software)/sub-products/ directory. configure and postinstall scripts take care of adding the drivers into kernel. You will need to specify if the system needs a kernel rebuild in your psf file.

-Sri

[Kelli Ward]

Hi again all,
I have read the SD-UX doc, but didn't really equate it to pulling installed filesets back off a system.
I will definitely invest a bit of time and patience for the long term piece of mind. This ol' system has given us some scares in the past. I would like the added insurance.

Points will follow, it may take a day or two.

Kel

[Kelli Ward]

or ten...
; )