topic Re: Patch Bundle in Operating System - HP-UX

Patch Bundle

George Chechakunnil — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:18:18 GMT

Hello Admnins

We are to apply the HP Gold and BASE patches on all our servers. We also need to upgrade other products like Powerpath, Glance, STM, Java.

I downloaded the softwares and created the depots. To save time i bundled all of them together

I used swcopy on all of the above products to a new depot.

When i do a swinstall i can see all the products and i selected them for install.

The problem is for some reason only the GOld and base patches are being installed. It is not installing any other products. i get a note saying note saying “One or more patch filesets were automatically selected or deselected to maintain patch integrity”.

Is it possible/ advisable to combine the products like this.

Swinstall. log is not giving any errors.

Please help

Thanks
George

Re: Patch Bundle

Torsten. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:27:54 GMT

The installer log will give you the reason for this (this must not be an error from the installer point of view).

Please review the log file.

Re: Patch Bundle

OFC_EDM — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:02:51 GMT

Review the log files.

The two most seen reasons I've seen for products being de-selected are:

-same version or newer is already installed.

-dependencies aren't in depot
- but they may be on the system and you
can proceed ignoring the errors
- BUT!!! you'll have to verify manually
that all dependecies are on the system

Maybe post the errors from your log. And we can offer more help.

Cheers,
K

Re: Patch Bundle

whiteknight — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:30:22 GMT

George,

My suggestion upgrade all of your fileset first before you update latest Gold and base patches.

WK

Re: Patch Bundle

George Chechakunnil — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:05:08 GMT

Attached is the swinstall.log

The thing is if i try to install by selecting only the products.. excluding the GOLD patches it works fine from the same depot.

I am wondering if i made the depot properly

1. created the depots saperately
2. swcopy of them one by one into a same new depot

is there anything wrong in the above steps?

Re: Patch Bundle

OFC_EDM — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:13:25 GMT

Can you provide output from swlist -l depot?

There may be an issue with
"/depots/dev/patches/April_2008".

I've seen depots fail because they arent' named properly.

Literally I had a depot named "SomeDepot" and the install failed.

Renamed it with the mv command to "SomeDepot.depot" and it worked.

Wonder if you're experiencing a similar gremlin?

Re: Patch Bundle

George Chechakunnil — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:43:08 GMT

swlist shows as below

ustcu027 root /depots/dev/patches/April_2008 > swlist -l depot @ /depots/dev/patches/April_2008/depot
# Initializing...
# Target "ustcu027" has the following depot(s):
/depots/dev/patches/April_2008/depot

its a directory..how can we mv to a somedepot.depot?

please help

Re: Patch Bundle

George Chechakunnil — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:55:56 GMT

i can see all the products in swlist

ustcu027 root /depots/dev/patches/April_2008 > swlist -d @ /depots/dev/patches/April_2008/depot
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "ustcu027"...
#
# Target: ustcu027:/depots/dev/patches/April_2008/depot
#

#
# Bundle(s):
#

B3701AA C.04.70.000 HP GlancePlus/UX Pak For HP-UX 11i
BUNDLE B.2008.04.16 Patch Bundle
GOLDAPPS11i B.11.11.0712.475 Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2007
GOLDBASE11i B.11.11.0712.475 Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2007
Java60JDK 1.6.0.00.00 Java 6.0 JDK for HP-UX
Java60JRE 1.6.0.00.00 Java 6.0 JRE for HP-UX
OnlineDiag B.11.11.20.03 HPUX 11.11 Support Tools Bundle, December 2007
#
# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:
#

EMCpower HP.5.1.0_b160 PowerPath

Re: Patch Bundle

Dennis Handly — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:33:53 GMT

>Attached is the swinstall.log

This shows these "errors":
44 filesets have the selected revision already installed.
3 software objects had their check script
return the code indicating that the software will be excluded from further processing.
19 filesets were determined to be skipped in the analysis phase.

The latter two are important to track down.
Have you looked at the swagentd.log?
Or used swjob?

Instead of using an interactive swinstall, just use:
swinstall -s /depots/dev/patches/April_2008/depot \*

>swlist shows as below
> swlist -l depot @ /depots/dev/patches/April_2008/depot

You should not be seduced over to the SD dark side by using this syntax. Use this consistent -s syntax:
swlist -s $PWD/depot

>it's a directory.. how can we mv to a somedepot.depot?

You are confused. It's not a directory. It's a directory depot.

You could use mv but that would get swreg upset. (If you care, you would then need to unregister then register that depot, after you moved it.)