topic Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation in Operating System - HP-UX

Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Ganesh Balraman — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:41:14 GMT

HI All,

We had downloaded latest patch bundles from itrc.hp.com.for 11.23.

When i try to install the patch bundle,While marking the bundle it displays partial.

It is getting succesfully installed wand swlist also displays June 2007.

When i look into /var/adm/sw/swagent.log and swinstall.log it reports some items skipped.

swagent.log and swinstall.log attached for reference.

Regds
Ganesh

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:46:38 GMT

Shalom Ganesh,

Hard to tell without seeing the swagent.log file.

However, not all patches are required on all systems.

You may have previously installed some of them in past patch bundles.

Some may fix problems in products not installed on your system.

SEP

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Torsten. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:47:38 GMT

Nothing attached.

Normally not needed items are skipped.

The process cannot patch software that is not installed, but the patches are in the bundle.

Don't worry!

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Torsten. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:51:03 GMT

additional information is here:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1156327

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Ganesh Balraman — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:01:37 GMT

HI attached swinstall.log and swagent.log in same file.

REgds
Ganesh

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Marcin O. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:03:46 GMT

Hello

Sometimes not all patches are required. When you download some packs from itrc it sometimes have more patches that you need.

Thanks
Marcin

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Torsten. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:06:25 GMT

Here are the reasons:

NOTE: The fileset "PHCO_23492.CORE-KRN,r=1.0" is already installed.

=> already installed = skipped

NOTE: This software will be excluded from further processing.
NOTE: The SUBAGT-MIB2 fileset will be skipped, because
higher version of the Emanate Agents is already installed

=> skipped

NOTE: The patch fileset "PHSS_35434.CDE-JPN-S-HELP,r=1.0" may only
be installed upon a previously installed base fileset. The
specification for this base fileset is
"CDE.CDE-JPN-S-HELP,fr=B.11.11,v=HP". Since there is no
fileset on the target or selected from the source which
matches this specification, fileset
"PHSS_35434.CDE-JPN-S-HELP,r=1.0" will be excluded.

=> not installed = skipped

and so on ...

Important:

* Summary of Analysis Phase:
* 702 of 930 filesets will be Skipped.
* 228 of 930 filesets had no Errors or Warnings.
* The Analysis Phase succeeded.

NO errors! Good!

No need to worry!

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

whiteknight — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:08:11 GMT

Ganesh,

Some patches are already installed, as the system will match what the target has, that's why you will see partial. It is normal.

WK

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Torsten. — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:12:47 GMT

The patch bundles are cumulative.

Some patches in the Jun '07 (11.23 Standard Patch Bundles) are already in the Mar '07 (11.23 Standard Patch Bundles)or even in the Sep '06 (11.23 Standard Patch Bundles) ... and already installed if you did install one of the bundles or individual patches.

Consider to assign points!

Have fun!

Re: Latest Patch Bundles Installation

Bob E Campbell — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:26:28 GMT

The number of messages you see when you explicitly select a patch bundle can be frustrating, and with older versions of SD-UX (swinstall) it is possible to see some odd error messages. For these reasons I usually recommend that patch bundles always be installes with the "-x patch_match_target=true" option rather than by marking the bundle. This way SD will only try to install the patches that make sense, rather than trying to install them all and tossing out the ones that cannot.

Either way, the same content should end up on the system in the end.