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.
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