Re: A list of the installed software on a HP-UX system ?

From: Mikko Nahkola (mnahkola_at_trein.ntc.nokia.com)
Date: 09/27/05

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    Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:06:21 GMT

    In article <E0_Ze.13238$Nk.12896@news.cpqcorp.net>, Jim Hollenback wrote:
    > Mikko Nahkola (mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com) wrote:
    >
    >: Then again, bash isn't in the base set anyway, being a GNU add-on.
    >: (It _might_ still be in the swlist, though.)
    >
    > depends. If it was installed via a sw depot, yes it will be listed. If
    > on the other hand it was installed via tar or gzip, it will not be listed
    > by swlist.

    And I think there was a way to get rpm on HP-UX and then install bash
    with that ...

    Which was more or less my point - can't possibly know where it'd be
    listed, if anywhere.

    BTW, do rpm and friends cope with NFS-shared parts of the directory
    tree? I find swinstall's way of dealing with that rather good. "-x
    write_remote_files= ..." 

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Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com>
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