HP Software Package Builder (SPB) manual Resolving, Specifications, Spb, Validation

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Advanced Features

Overview of Software Specification Attributes

• An entire product

Corequisites The corequisites attribute defines a fileset dependency that requires another fileset or product to be installed and configured in order for the dependent fileset to operate correctly. Multiple corequisites may be defined.

Prerequisites The prerequisites attribute defines a fileset dependency that requires another fileset to be installed and/or configured correctly before it can be installed or configured. Prerequisites imply an install-time dependency. Multiple prerequisites may be defined.

	Ancestor Attribute
	The ancestor attribute defines the name of a previous version of a fileset.
	This attribute designates the list of filesets that will match the current
	fileset when installed on a target system, if the match_target
	installation option is specified.
	Contents Attribute
	The contents attribute defines the list of the software elements contained
	within a subproduct or bundle. This attribute is automatically generated
	when you create and add content to a bundle or subproduct. You can only
	edit this attribute when it is used to define bundle contents.
Resolving	For a software specification attribute to be resolved with respect to other
Software	software on the source depot, it must be:
Specifications	• Complete (if the dependency is an entire product or subproduct it

	must exist completely in the source depot),
	• Free of errors (e.g., no incompatibility errors), and
	• Available from the source depot or exist on the target host. (If the
	dependency is not available from the source, the dependency must
	exist on the target host.)
SPB and	When assigning dependencies in your PSF using the SPB GUI, you
Validation	should be aware of what SPB will and will not validate or resolve.
	SPB will:
	• Validate syntax for defined software specification attribute values
	• Validate software specification attributes in the local PSF

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