Patent ID: 6560776
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for generating information for use in verifying an installation of at least one program onto a target computational component, comprising:providing an installation program, the installation program comprising a set of installation instructions executable by a target computational component and at least one program to be installed on the target computational component, the installation instructions describing installation of the at least one program on the target computational component; parsing at least some of the installation program to provide a collection of a plurality of first file identifiers and/or first file changes associated with the installation program; and collecting additional information associated with each of the plurality of first file identifiers and/or first file changes in the collection to form installation data, wherein the parsing step includes setting a mode indicator for controlling a mode of a build computational component, the mode being at least one of a parsing mode and a nonparsing mode.