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HP Unix - Read Depot Without Installing
Preface
In some situations it is needed to check the content of “.depot” file without installing it.
In this short document we’ll see hot to open a “.depot” file to see the content of it.
This example was tested on:
- HP Unix / HP UX / HP-UX
- Linux
- Cygwin
Uncompressing the “.depot” file
To uncompressing of HP-UX “.depot” file you can use this command:
# tar -vxf <NAME_OF>.depot
To prevent messing up our file system in this example we will create a directory and put all related files in to it:
[root@hpux:~]# mkdir /tmp/test/ # Creat directory where we will place all related files [root@hpux:~]# cp Test_01.00.depot /tmp/test/ # Copy " .depot " in to this new directory [root@hpux:~]# cd /tmp/test/ # Go to the new dorectory [root@hpux:/tmp/test/]# tar -vxf Test_01.00.depot # Uncompress ".depot" file x catalog/INDEX, 693 bytes, 2 tape blocks x catalog/dfiles/INDEX, 250 bytes, 1 tape blocks x catalog/dfiles/INFO, 138 bytes, 1 tape blocks x catalog/Test/pfiles/INDEX, 267 bytes, 1 tape blocks x catalog/Test/pfiles/INFO, 138 bytes, 1 tape blocks x catalog/Test/Test/INDEX, 176 bytes, 1 tape blocks x catalog/Test/Test/INFO, 1057 bytes, 3 tape blocks x catalog/Test/Test/configure, 751 bytes, 2 tape blocks x catalog/Test/Test/preremove, 935 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Test/Test/opt/test/bin/config_install, 751 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Test/Test/opt/test/bin/config_remove, 935 bytes, 2 tape blocks x Test/Test/opt/test/data/Hello_world.txt, 34 bytes, 1 tape blocks
Content of ".depot" file
After uncompressing of depot file it is possible to see the whole structure of the depot file:
[root@hpux:/tmp/test/]# ll # Check the list of new directories that have been in ".depot" file total 48 drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 96 Oct 21 12:56 catalog drwxr-xr-x 3 bin bin 96 Oct 21 12:56 Test -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 20480 Oct 21 12:56 Test_01.00.depot [root@hpux:/tmp/test/]# find ./* # list of all directories and files included in ".depot" ./Test # Directory including SW/Data and Scripts ./Test/Test ./Test/Test/opt ./Test/Test/opt/test ./Test/Test/opt/test/bin ./Test/Test/opt/test/bin/config_install # Script executed durinf Installation ./Test/Test/opt/test/bin/config_remove # Script executed durinf Uninstallation ./Test/Test/opt/test/data ./Test/Test/opt/test/data/Hello_world.txt ./Test_01.00.depot # Original ".depot" file ./catalog # Information for OS, how to deal with this ".depot" ./catalog/INDEX ./catalog/dfiles ./catalog/dfiles/INDEX ./catalog/dfiles/INFO ./catalog/Test ./catalog/Test/pfiles ./catalog/Test/pfiles/INDEX ./catalog/Test/pfiles/INFO ./catalog/Test/Test ./catalog/Test/Test/INDEX ./catalog/Test/Test/INFO ./catalog/Test/Test/configure ./catalog/Test/Test/preremove
