Chapter 4: Preparing Packages For Deployment; About Preparing Packages For Deployment; Process For Deploying A Single Package - Symantec SOFTWARE MANAGER 8.0 - REFERENCE FOR WISE PACKAGE STUDIO V1.0 Reference

Chapter 4
Preparing Packages for Deployment

About Preparing Packages for Deployment

Process for Deploying a Single Package

Software Manager Reference
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Preparing Packages for Deployment
Process for Deploying a Single Package
Process for Deploying a Group
About Package Definition
About Package Relationships
Impact and Risk Assessment
About SVS Enabled Packages
Package Distribution
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After a package has been imported into the Software Manager database, you can do the
following to prepare it for deployment:
Create a package definition, which specifies the installation file and/or other files to
be installed and one or more command lines.
Define dependency relationships between packages.
Prepare a group of packages for deployment.
See Package Groups
Enable packages for Software Virtualization Solution (SVS).
Perform impact and risk assessments on hotfixes and patches.
Set the package status, which indicates whether a package is still in development,
available for deployment, or retired.
Distribute available packages to end users or to a distribution tool.
Do this to deploy a package that has no dependencies or that needs no special
command line to run.
To deploy patches, transforms, Wise package definition files, and multiple related
packages, you must add them to a group.
See Process for Deploying a
After you import a package into the Software Manager database, do the following to
prepare it for deployment:
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