PING : THE SOFTWARE DEPOT COOKBOOK : CREATING A SOFTWARE DEPOT

Method A -- swpackage

Swpackage can create an unregistered depot. It's primarily used to package up software products for later installation by swinstall. (We'll look at that process later)

    # swpackage -s /depot/psf_files/procmail.psf -d /home/bass/depot
    

• "-s" specifies the source, "procmail.psf", a Product Specification File, which tells swpackage how to package up the product. (We'll talk about PSF files a little later.)
• "-d" specifies the destination, /home/bass/depot, a depot subdirectory. The destination does not have to exist. Swpackage will create it for you. The destination could also have been a file or tape. (See the section "Creating Depot Files or Tapes" for details)

Method B -- swcopy

If you have a bunch of products or filesets that you want to group together into a new or existing depot (a collection of patches, for example), use swcopy. The destination depot does not have to exist; swcopy will create it for you if it doesn't. For example:

    
    # swcopy -s /home/bass/depot procmail @ /tmp/depot
    

• "-s" specifies the source depot, /home/bass/depot. It could be a depot file, directory, tape device or mounted CD-ROM.
• "procmail" is the name of the product or fileset to copy.
• "@" specifies the destination depot, "/tmp/depot". (Yes, I think they should have used "-d" for destination)

Registering the depot directory (optional)

Note that the newly-created depot directory is unregistered. That means we can't locate it with

    % swlist -l depot
    

Which would list all the available depots on this system.

However, we can still list the depot's contents with swlist, if we tell him where the depot is:

    % swlist -s /home/bass/depot
    

If you want to register the depot, use the swreg command:

    # swreg -l depot /home/bass/depot
    

Copying Something Into The Software Depot