topic Re: superseded in Operating System - HP-UX

superseded

Waugh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:35:32 GMT

Hi,

How to check the superseded patches before installing patch through command lind.

Regards
Rkumar

Re: superseded

Adam W. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:02:06 GMT

/usr/sbin/cleanup -c 2
(Will let you see and prompt you to remove removed all patches that have been superseded at least 2 times)

Re: superseded

OFC_EDM — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:13:20 GMT

Or did you mean how to check if your patch has been superseeded.

Go to http://www11.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/pdbMainPage.do and type in your patch.

The resulting page will let you know if it's been superseded.

Re: superseded

Dennis Handly — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:25:14 GMT

>How to check the superseded patches before installing patch

What are you asking? Is it Kevin's assumption? Or are you worried that you have superseded some patches? You don't need to worry about the latter, swinstall handles it.
Unless you are worried about space as Adam mentioned cleanup.

Re: superseded

Waugh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:01:32 GMT

Hi ,
How to check the superseded patches before installing patch?Is it possible through command line

Regards
Rkumar

Re: superseded

Dennis Handly — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:40:38 GMT

>How to check the superseded patches before installing patch?

Check them how, existence? And why bother?
Superseded patches are moved into the IPD save area.

You need to explain better what you are trying to do and figure out??

Re: superseded

Waugh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:06:37 GMT

Hi Dennis,

I was trying to understand below 2 command .what they r doing

1)swlist - l fileset -a patch_state -x show_superseded_patches=true* | more
2)swlist -l fileset -a ancestor -a supersedes PHCO_26385

Regards
Rkumar

Re: superseded

Dennis Handly — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:51:36 GMT

>what they are doing?
1)swlist -l fileset -a patch_state -x show_superseded_patches=true \*

(Note corrections.)
This would list all filesets on the system giving their patch state. It would probably better to change the "\*" to "PH??_?????" so you only do patches.

>2)swlist -l fileset -a ancestor -a supersedes PHCO_26385

For the patch PHCO_26385, it lists ancestors and which patches it supersedes.

Re: superseded

Waugh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:58:14 GMT

Hi Dennis,

That was the my query. Thanks

Reagrds
Rkumar

Re: superseded

Dennis Handly — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:09:38 GMT

You can also get that info from the ITRC patch tree:
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchTree.do?patchid=PHCO_26385