swinstall behaviour

[Craig Johnson_1]

I have a depot file that appears to be a tarball (at least it can be untarred). If you simply point swinstall at it, it says it is starting the TUI/GUI since no software was specified, then displays the depot in the TUI/GUI list. ???

# swinstall -p -s /usr/local/patches/depotname.depot

I also tried this with a PHSS_XXXXX.depot and it did the same thing. Why? I just want to install it from the command line.

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

You didn't specify product name:

# swinstall -p -s /usr/local/patches/depotname.depot PRODUCT


see it with swlist

regards,
ivan

[Patrick Wallek]

If you want to install ALL the software in the depot you can do:

# swinstall -p -s /usr/local/patches/depotname.depot \*

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Craig:

If you have a depot with mutiple patches or products and you want to install everything in it, do:

# swinstall -p -s /usr/local/patches/depotname.depot \*

Note the backslash (escape) to prevent the shell from interpreting the asterisk. The '-p' switch means a "preview" action only, of course.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Craig Johnson_1]

Thanks everone. I actually have used the \* before, just not in this context, or at least not for long enough that I forgot.

Thanks again.