Creating one depot from 3 depots

[Vincent Farrugia]

How can I do this please?

Any answers will be appreciated and rewarded.

Thanks,
Vince

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

swcopy all the depots into one.

Use swcopy in interactive mode.. it's easier.
#swcopy

Then create the single depot.

You can make a bundle with the make_bundles command.
If you don't have this command get ignite.

Later,
Bill

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Take a look at the swcopy(1m) man page. Use swcopy to copy the contents of two of your depots into the third. If there are patches in these depots, remeber to use cleanup(1m) on the depot when your done.

HTH

Duncan

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

Hi Vince,

swcopy -s {source depot1} \* @ {target depot}
swcopy -s {source depot2} \* @ {target depot}
swcopy -s {source depot3} \* @ {target depot}

Rgds, Robin.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Something to watch out for when copying from one depot to another is that swcopy still does all the dependency & pre-requisite checking that happens during an swinstall, so if for example you are copying a patch which has a kernel fileset defined as a pre-requisite, then the copy can fail on analysis if the fileset isn't in your depot even though you know it is installed on all your servers. Get round this by setting the

enforce_dependencies=false

Option

NEVER use this option on an actual install.

[Vincent Farrugia]

Thanks guys, problem solved. Case closed.