how to create depot in hpux

[avizen9]

Hello friends,
i want to create one Centralize server on my office site and then from that server i can install all sw and application, how to do that.

i am having few .depot source how to register it in this server so that from any other station i can install it through swinstall -s

i need to use swreg –l depot @ /path/package-name.depot ?

thanks for your reply

[Dennis Handly]

>i need to use swreg -l depot @ /path/package-name.depot?

You should remove that "@". Note if you used swcopy, it should have automatically registered it.

[avizen9]

where can i get .depot files?

[Dennis Handly]

>where can i get .depot files?

Are you talking about patches, HP software or your own?

For the latter, you'll need to use swpackage to create your depots.
The other two should already be in SD depot format.

[avizen9]

Hello thanks for reply,
i am talking about s/w and applications for hpux
i also got one question, i am having running server at my remote site santaclara at present i am usging that server to install all application and s/w, how to ftp all source from that server, i got root access there,

please check attachment.

[Dennis Handly]

>i am having running server at my remote site santa clara

(Remote? That's just down the street. :-)

>how to ftp all source from that server, i got root access there

Why do you want to ftp the depot?
You can directly install from the depot:
# swinstall -s swdepot.X.Y.Z.com:depot-path

[avizen9]

i know i can directly install from there, but as i mentioned i need to create my own server at local site. i need to copy all depot. from there how?

[Dennis Handly]

>i need to create my own server at local site. i need to copy all depot from there how?

Ah, instead of swinstall, you use swcopy for each depot.

You can write a script to take the output from swlist and use it to swcopy each depot.
#!/usr/bin/ksh

SOURCE=swdepot.X.Y.Z.com
swlist -l depot -s $SOURCE | grep "^ " |
while read DEPOT; do
echo swcopy -x enforce_dependencies=false \
-s $SOURCE:$DEPOT \* @ $DEPOT
done

When you think you have gotten the syntax right, you can remove the "echo".