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IEEE 1387.2-1995

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IEEE Standard for Information Technology- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX(TM)) System Administration - Part 2: Software Administration

Withdrawn date

17-10-2023

Published date

14-06-1996

Section 1: General
  1.1 Scope
  1.2 Normative References
  1.3 Conformance
  1.4 Test Methods
Section 2: Terminology and General Requirements
  2.1 Conventions
  2.2 Definitions
  2.3 Dependencies on Other Standards
Section 3: Software Structures
  3.1 Software_Collection
  3.2 Distribution
  3.3 Media
  3.4 Installed_Software
  3.5 Vendor
  3.6 Software
  3.7 Products
  3.8 Bundles
  3.9 Filesets
  3.10 Subproducts
  3.11 Software_Files
  3.12 Files
  3.13 Control_Files
Section 4: Software Administration Utilities
  4.1 Common Definitions for Utilities
  4.2 swask--Ask for user responses
  4.3 swconfig--Configure software
  4.4 swcopy--Copy Distribution
  4.5 swinstall--Install software
  4.6 swlist--List software catalog
  4.7 swmodify--Modify software catalog
  4.8 swpackage--Package distribution
  4.9 swremove--Remove software
  4.10 swverify--Verify software
Section 5: Software Packaging Layout
  5.1 Directory Structure
  5.2 Software Definition File Format
  5.3 Serial Format and Multiple Media
Annex A (informative) Bibliography
Annex B (informative) Rationale and Notes
  B.1 General
  B.2 Terminology and General Requirements
  B.3 Software Structures
  B.4 Software Administration Utilities
  B.5 Software Packaging Layout
Annex C (informative) Sample Files
  C.1 Defaults File
  C.2 Product Specification File
  C.3 Software Packaging Layout
  C.4 INDEX File
  C.5 INFO File
  C.6 Control Script
Annex D (informative) Portability Considerations
  D.1 User Requirements
  D.2 Portability Capabilities
  D.3 Profiling Considerations
Alphabetic Topical Index
Figures
Figure 5-1 - Example of Software Packaging Layout
Figure B-1 - Roles in Software Administration
Figure B-2 - Example of Software Structure
Figure B-3 - Software Object Containment
Figure B-4 - Software Object Inheritance
Figure B-5 - Fileset State Transitions (Within Distributions)
Figure B-6 - Fileset State Transitions (Within Installed Software)
Figure B-7 - Installation State Changes
Figure B-8 - Order of Install Operations
Figure B-9 - Order of Remove Operations
Figure B-10 - SDU INFO file format
Figure B-11 - SVR4 pkgmap file format
Tables
Table 2-1 - Typographical Conventions
Table 3-1 - Attributes of the SoftwareCollection Common Class
Table 3-2 - Attributes of the Distribution Class
Table 3-3 - Attributes of the Media Class
Table 3-4 - Attributes of the Installed Software Class
Table 3-5 - Attributes of the Vendor Class
Table 3-6 - Attributes of the Software Common Class
Table 3-7 - Attributes of the Product Class
Table 3-8 - Attributes of the Bundle Class
Table 3-9 - Attributes of the Fileset Class
Table 3-10 - Attributes of the Subproduct Class
Table 3-11 - Attributes of the Software_Files Common Class
Table 3-12 - Attributes of the File Class
Table 3-13 - Attributes of the Control File Class
Table 4-1 - Software_spec Version Identifiers
Table 4-2 - Script Return Codes
Table 4-3 - Event Status
Table 4-4 - General Error Events
Table 4-5 - Session Events
Table 4-6 - Analysis Phase Events
Table 4-7 - Execution Phase Events
Table 4-8 - Return Codes
Table 4-9 - Default Levels
Table 5-1 - File Attributes for INFOR File
Table B-1 - Possible Attributes of a Host Class
Table B-2 - Mapping from Software to DMTF Component ID
Table B-3 - Comparison of Some Existing Practices
Table B-4 - Comparison of Software Administration Packages
Table B-5 - Comparison of Existing Practice for Software Packaging
Table B-6 - Packaging Layout Comparisons
Table D-1 - 1387.2 Portability Capability Summary

Part of the POSIX series of standards for applications and user interfaces to open systems. It defines a software packaging layout, a set of information maintained about software, and a set of utility programs to manipulate that software and information.

Committee
Portable Applications
DocumentType
Standard
PublisherName
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Status
Withdrawn

Standards Relationship
CSA ISO/IEC 15068-2 : 2002 : R2006 Identical
CSA ISO/IEC 15068-2:2002 Identical
ISO/IEC 15068-2:1999 Identical

ISO/IEC 9945-1:2003 Information technology Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 1: Base Definitions
ISO/IEC 9945-2:2003 Information technology Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Part 2: System Interfaces
ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 Information technology Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane

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