topic What do swcopy and swpackage do? in Operating System - HP-UX

What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Nguyen Anh Tien — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:58:57 GMT

For examle: I must install 4 Patches (or 4 bundles) named:
PHKL_30607.depot
PHKL_30607.depot
PHKL_30219.depot
PHKL_29047.depot
How do i use swpackage to pack them in to one depot and Install them

Re: What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:05:11 GMT

You don't use swpackage

You do this:

script
# for i in PH*
# do
# sh $i
# done

for i in *.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ ${1}
done

$1 is the full path of the depot you want to make.

The commented code at the top would also unshar the depot's which you already seemed to have done.

SEP

Re: What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:41:59 GMT

Hi,

Maybe this link will help,

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000066937439

The itrc doc id is HONCIKKBRC00000015

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Nguyen Anh Tien — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:42:17 GMT

Dear SEP.
If I do following your way. I must Install 4 times. that is inconvenience. I just install one time for 4 depot.(4 deport are Kernel Patches,If I patches individually i must reboot myserver 4 times).
Thank

Re: What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:45:28 GMT

Hi,

I believe you need little more information. Make the script look like below.

cd /wherever_the_depot_files_are
mkdir /tmp/patchdepot
for i in *.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /tmp/patchdepot
done
swreg -l depot /tmp/patchdepot

Now /tmp/patchdepot is a single depot where you can see all the above patches. Simply specify /tmp/patchdepot as the 'target' in your swinstall window, select all the patches and install.

-Sri

Re: What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Ranjith_5 — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:14:19 GMT

Use swcopy on each patch to copy the patch into a local depot, then use swinstall to install all patches contained in the local depot.
Eg:-
# swcopy -s /tmp/PHKL_30607.depot -x enforce_dependencies=false \* \
@ /tmp/my_patch_depot

# swcopy -s /tmp/PHKL_30607.depot -x enforce_dependencies=false \* \
@ /tmp/my_patch_depot
etc..

# swinstall -s /tmp/my_patch_depot -x autoreboot=true \*

Regards,
Syam

Re: What do swcopy and swpackage do?

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:23:21 GMT

All 4 patches need to be in the same direcotry.

Run my code and create a depot called:

/tmp/mydepot.depot

You will see 4 patches in the directory.

swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x reinstall=false -s /tmp/mydepot.depot \*

1 install, one boot.

Sorry if my instructions were incomplete.

SEP