Creating personal software depots

[Paul Thomson_2]

Hi

I have created software depots in the past for patches and CD's which contained HPUX software. However, I would like to create something similar for my own scripts. For example, I could create a depot for my own applications which would contain all the files. Im wondering if this is possible using swcopy aslong as I have set up the source OK. I have tried searching the ITRC and everything details HP software.

Any help would be approciated.

Thanks
Paul

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

Hi paul, You can create your personal depots with # swpackage. First of all, you need to create PSF file and Control scripts like, preinstall, postinstall, configure, etc.

Check this guide for more information,
http://docs.hp.com/en/SD/cookbook.html

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

To create software distribution use swpackage to create it.

Useful document,

http://docs.hp.com/en/5990-6771/index.html

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Muthu

[Muthukumar_5]

I could create a depot for my own applications which would contain all the files. Im wondering if this is possible using swcopy aslong as I have set up the source OK.

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You can copy the file sets to another software source target with swcopy.

Copy the C and Pascal products to some local and remote depots:

swcopy -s sw_server cc pascal @ /var/spool/sw hostA:/tmp/sw hostB

See more on swcopy man page on Examples part.

To create new software package, develope a product specification file (psf) and use swpackage a depot file.

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Muthu

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Paul,

A great thread,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=983049

-Arun

[Paul Thomson_2]

Arun / Muthu

Thanks, your first posts gave me all I needed to do to create what I needed.

Thanks very much.....

[Geoff Wild]

Paul - also download psf.pl from this site - good perl script to create your own psf file...

http://www.hpworks.org.uk/newsletter/articles/depots/

I modified mine to go to /opt instead of /usr/local

Rgds...Geoff