Introduction

The SD-UX Installed Products Database (IPD) keeps track of installations, products and filesets on the system. Located in the directory /var/adm/sw/products, the IPD is a series of files and subdirectories that contain information about all the products that are installed under the root directory (/). See Chapter 1 “Introduction to Software Distributor” for more information on the IPD.

The equivalent IPD files for a depot are called catalog files. When a depot is created or modified using swcopy, catalog files are built (by default in /var/spool/sw/catalog) that describe the depot and its contents.

Since both the IPD and catalog files are created and constantly modified by other SD-UX operations (swinstall, swcopy, and swremove), they are not directly accessible if you want to change the information they contain. If you need to edit the information in either the IPD or in any depots' catalog files, you must use the SD-UX swmodify command.

swmodify and the Product Specification File (PSF)

The product specification file (PSF) for swmodify uses the same swpackage PSF format as defined in “Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)”.

A full PSF contains at least product, fileset, and file definitions. It can serve as valid input to the swmodify command, and provides swmodify with the information needed to create a new product, with filesets and files. A full PSF can also be specified when adding new filesets or files to existing products or filesets. A full PSF can also be specified when removing filesets (or files) from existing products (or filesets).