The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for
A depot is a place where large amounts of raw materials, equipment, arms, or other supplies are kept until they are needed. food depots. a government arms depot. = warehouse
A repository of software products and a catalog, organized so SD-UX commands can use it as a software source The contents of a depot reside in a directory structure with a single, common root A depot can exist as a directory tree on a SD-UX file system or on CD-ROM media, and it can exist as a tar archive on a serial media (tape) All depots share a single logical format, independent of the type of media on which the depot resides Depots can reside on a local or remote system You can package software directly into a depot or copy packaged software into the depot from elsewhere