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Identifying the Products to Package
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Determining Product Contents

The first step in packaging software is to determine what files and directories you want included in the software product. These files and directories must follow certain guidelines to support the configuration you want.

Key points in this structure are:

  • Where are shareable (for example, executables) and non-shareable (for example, configuration) files installed?

  • How is configuration used to put non-shareable files in place?

Determining Product Structure

Determine the product structure that your software should follow. SD-UX provides four levels of software objects:

Level

Objects

Filesets

(Required) Filesets include the actual product files, information that describes those files (attributes) and separate control scripts that are run before, during or after the fileset is installed, copied or removed. Filesets are the smallest manageable (selectable) software object. Files must be grouped into one or more filesets. Filesets must be grouped into one or more products. (Filesets can be members of only a single product.)

Subproducts

(Optional) Subproducts are used to group related filesets within a product if the product contains several filesets. Subproduct definitions are optional.

Products

(Required) Filesets (and/or subproducts) must be grouped into one or more products. They are usually grouped into collections that form a set of related software, or match the products that a customer purchases. The SD-UX commands maintain a product focus, while still allowing the flexibility to manage subsets of the products via subproducts and filesets.

Bundles

(Optional) Bundles are provided only by the HP factory. Customer packaging of bundles is not supported.

NOTE: You can define different versions of products for different platforms and operating systems, as well as different revisions (releases) of the product itself. You can include different product versions on the same distribution media.


Overview of the Packaging Process
  		 


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