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Operating Systems AIX Update vs. install media, and LPP_SOURCE naming Post 302974842 by bakunin on Saturday 4th of June 2016 03:18:00 PM

06-04-2016

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You have asked several questions here and some of them are notoriously touchy subjects. I'll try to go over them one by one.

The difference between update and install-packages: an install-package can be installed any time (well, requisites have to be met, etc.). An update-package can only be installed, if the package of the same name already has been installed. Basically there is some "base-level" fileset (which by itself is an install-package) as one of the prerequisites of the update-package.

The reason is mostly licensing: if you have an installation licenses for a certain AIX level you can install all the updates to it (they will be update-packages), but not another AIX version for which you have no license. Save for these legalities there is little difference in update- and install-packages. There are many update-packages which even replace all the files that come with that package.

About naming the NIM-resources: this should be done veeerrryyy carefully - and in practice rarely is. In most of the projects i came into the NIM-server was quite shoddily managed. I hate that with a passion but once i was done putting order to the chaos the project was usually done and in the next datacenter i went into the situation was the same as before, rinse and repeat.

Now, there is no real "right or wrong" way to do it, just be consistent with yourself. My personal system is to name all NIM-resources so that they immediately show their type: all lpp_sources are "lpp_something", all SPOTs are "spot_something", etc.. Then i have the habit of naming the resources by the versions they serve, i.e.:

Code:

lpp_71_03-02
lpp_71_03-03
lpp_71_03-04
lpp_71_03-05
spot_71_03-02
spot_71_03-03
spot_71_03-04
spot_71_03-05
[...]

This way i see immediately which lpp_source belongs to which SPOT and vice versa.

For other software i create a lpp_source and put everything into it, i.e. lpp_java, which contains all Java-versions, lpp_emc, which contains all versions of the EMC drivers, etc.. HACMP (or whatever they call it today) has a separate lpp_source for every version: lpp_hacmp_711, lpp_hacmp_713 and so on.

I suggest creating a sensible direcctory structure too, but this is separate from the structure of the NIM-resources.

Btw., you do not need a separate install- and update-lpp_source. You can put everything into one and it is even more convenient because if you try to install pkg.1.1 (the update) it will - if you selected "automatically install requisite software" automatically install pkg.1.0 (the base install package) if it is there. Otherwise you always have to switch from one lpp_source to the other and back.

I hope this helps.

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dh_installexamples

DH_INSTALLEXAMPLES(1)						     Debhelper						     DH_INSTALLEXAMPLES(1)

NAME

       dh_installexamples - install example files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installexamples [debhelperoptions] [-A] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installexamples is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing examples into usr/share/doc/package/examples in package build
       directories.

       From debhelper compatibility level 11 on, dh_install will fall back to looking in debian/tmp for files, if it does not find them in the
       current directory (or wherever you've told it to look using --sourcedir).

FILES

       debian/package.examples
	   Lists example files or directories to be installed.

OPTIONS

       -A, --all
	   Install any files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on.

       --sourcedir=dir
	   Look in the specified directory for files to be installed.  This option requires compat 11 or later (it is silently ignored in compat
	   10 or earlier).

	   Note that this is not the same as the --sourcedirectory option used by the dh_auto_* commands. You rarely need to use this option,
	   since dh_installexamples automatically looks for files in debian/tmp in debhelper compatibility level 11 and above.

       --doc-main-package=main-package
	   Set the main package for a documentation package.  This is used to install the documentation of the documentation package in
	   /usr/share/doc/main-package as recommended by the Debian policy manual 3.9.7 in S12.3.

	   In compat 11 (or later), this option is only useful if debhelper's auto-detection of the main package is wrong.  The option can also be
	   used to silence a warning from debhelper when the auto-detection fails but the default happens to be correct.

	   This option cannot be used when dh_installexamples is instructed to act on multiple packages.  If you need this option, you will
	   generally need to combine it with -p to ensure exactly one package is acted on.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       file ...
	   Install these files (or directories) as examples into the first package acted on. (Or into all packages if -A is specified.)

NOTES

       Note that dh_installexamples will happily copy entire directory hierarchies if you ask it to (similar to cp -a). If it is asked to install
       a directory, it will install the complete contents of the directory.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2							    2018-05-10						     DH_INSTALLEXAMPLES(1)

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