Extracting files from a software depot

[Chad Brackelsberg]

Is there a way to extract the files from a software depot without having to install the depot?

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

You are able to install a bundle or an product depot. Ik you just need one fileset just use swremove to remove the other filesets!.

Gidoen

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
If you dont want to install the all the software first and remove you can use swcopy first to unpack the depot (for example in /var/spool/sw). From this location you can copy any file you want.

[Martin Johnson]

Why would you want to extract the files without installing the depot? Installing the depot insures that all the parts and pieces needed to run a program are in place and properly configured.

Extracting the files without an installation leaves you open to version mismatches and unpredictable behavior.

Murphy is alive and well and looking for opportunities. Don't tempt him.

HTH
Marty

[Wodisch]

Hi Chad,

simply use some of those "-x" options to NOT let "swcopy" stumble on dependencies.
How about
swcopy -x enforce_dependencies=false -x allow_incompatible=true -x allow_multiple_versions=true -x autoselect_dependencies=false -x enforce_dsa=false -x mount_all_filesystems=false

HTH,
Wodisch

[Dietmar Konermann]

If you need a real simple way to extract files from a depot then you can simply use tar(1), since a depot file is in fact a tar archive.

You may need to gunzip(1) or uncompress(1) the extracted files afterwards if the depot was in compressed format... BTW, this may also be true if you look into a depot directory created by swcopy(1M) unless -x uncompress_files=true was specified.

Best regards...
Dietmar.