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From: alan@bach.net.com (Alan Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: installp and inventory information
Keywords: lppchk copyright
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Date: 18 Jan 91 17:53:58 GMT
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We are creating an "installp" compatible installation method for our
application and have encountered a message that we are not really sure of the
meaning of.  At the end of the installation procedure we get the following
message:
	lppchk: LPP <Application_Name> has no inventory information.

We do not call lppchk from within out script "instal".  So the first question
is:  "Where is lppchk invoked from"?  The next question is, what "inventory
information" is lppchk referring to?  Are we missing some file in our
liblpp.a library?  We have RTFM'ed but don't seem to find this information.

Another installp curiosity that there is an obvious workaround for, but that we
would like to understand, is why the existence of a file named "copyright"
in /usr/lpp/<whatever> seems to block the execution of the script "instal".
If the file "copyright" is there, the installation process will simply
display the contents of this file and end, "instal" will never be executed.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Alan
Alan Phillips 					Phone: (415) 780-4477
Network Equipment Tech., Redwood City, CA
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