software depot

[gany59]

could any body tell how to create the software depot file in hp-ux 11iv3.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

To create or modify the contents of a software depot, use 'swcopy'. If you enter 'swcopy' at the command line without any options, you will get an interactive session.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Depots can be created from patches, with swcopy.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-4020/ch03s01.html

They can be created to deliver new software or even make a disk based copy of the OS for system cloning and other installation.

Cookbook:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/SD/cookbook.html

SEP

[Sharma Sanjeev]

Hi

If you want to create depot from cdrom

mount your cdrom to /cdrom,
copy the contents of the depot to the local system
under the /var/tmp/depot directory.
swcopy -s /cdrom/patch_name \* @ /var/tmp/depot

Invoke an interactive session, using the default depot at hostX as the source:
swcopy -i -s hostX

Regards
Sanjeev

[gany59]

hi sharma

could u tell how to copy the specific packages from cdrom to software depot.say my depot file /var/depot and the package name is ignite.THXS in advance

[Sharma Sanjeev · Accepted solution]

Hi Gany59

mount your cdrom to /cdrom,
copy the contents of the depot to the local system
under the /var/depot directory.
swcopy -s /cdrom/ignite \* @ /var/depot

Regards
Sanjeev

[gany59]

swcopy -s /cdrom/ignite \* @ /var/depot.. May i know "\" indicates what

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> swcopy -s /cdrom/ignite \* @ /var/depot.. May i know "\" indicates what

The '\' escapes the '*'. This prevents the shell from trying to expand the '*' into a list of files which would then be passed to 'swcopy'. Using the escaped '*' means that that is passed intact to 'swcopy'.

To see the difference, do:

# echo *

...and:

# echo \*

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

>could any body tell how to create the software depot file in HP-UX.

Strictly speaking, you can only create depots with swpackage(1m) or SPB. swcopy will only copy/merge depots.

>May I know "\" indicates what?

That we are too lazy to type 3 chars, "*", to suppress shell wildcard expansion. :-)

Note when you use swcopy, you typically use "-x enforce_dependencies=false" to not complain.