is_drd_safe Attribute Policy

Release

Package

Policy

 

Type

 

11i v2

Patches

Attribute does not need to be set for 11i v2 patches.

 

 

Though all new HP-UX 11i v2 patches (that is, patches created

 

 

after November 1, 2004) must be DRD-safe, they are not required

 

 

to set the is_drd_safe attribute. All existing patches have

 

 

been checked and all but a small subset have been verified to be

 

 

safe. The small subset of unsafe patches will be handled

 

 

internally. As a result, even though the patches will not have the

 

 

attribute set, they will be assumed to be safe (that is, the attribute

 

 

defaults to true for 11i v2 patches). All other packages have a

 

 

default of false. This difference in behavior for 11i v2 patches

 

 

has been introduced to allow existing 11i v2 patches (most of

 

 

which are safe) to be installed in a runcmd environment without

 

 

requiring the patches to be superseded just to set the attribute.

11i v2

Products

If a product (non-patch) has been validated to be DRD-safe, the

 

 

is_drd_safe attribute should be set to true for all filesets

 

 

within the product; otherwise, it should not be set for any of the

 

 

filesets.

11i v3

All

Required to be true for almost all HP-created software—patches,

 

packages

OE contents, and all other software. Exceptions are firmware

(and

 

patches and a few OpenView products.

later)