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Re: Need Help for creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file

 
kumar_choudhury
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Need Help for creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file

Can any one help me out in creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file. On our development server, we have three separate patch depot files for March 2004 QPK depot, March 2004 Hardware patch depot and another depot for eight Oracle patches and its dependency. Our production SA (Todd Reece) wants all these three depots to be combined into a single depot file for him to install on production. So, we need to create a single depot file using these three depot. We tried to create this depot file using "swcopy" command but were getting errors related to permission issues. I think this command has to be executed by root and not by users (through sudo access). Our development SA (Paul Otters) had mentioned that we could create this depot file. Can you please provide me some instructions/recommendations to create a single depot file.
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Need Help for creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file

Shalom,

Sure.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=226909

I have two scripts posted into this thread as attachments that will create new depot files from existing depot files.

Just put all the depots in the same directory.

These are root scripts.

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twang
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Re: Need Help for creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file

Simply use swcopy,
#swcopy -s $i -x enforce_dependencies=false \* @ /tmp/patches
Wang,MinJie
Super Advisor

Re: Need Help for creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file

Hey I assume that you have three *.depot files
So as I know you can first:
swcopy -s No1.depot \* @ /patch
swcopy -s No2.depot \* @ /patch
swcopy -s No3.depot \* @ /patch
then you get the depot with all three depots in it
then you can use
swpackage -s /AllThree.depot @ /patch
then you get the AllThree.depot file
Yogeeraj_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Need Help for creating an HP-UX OS patch depot file

hi,

I would prefer to create a depot structure where you could just copy all your software and patches. This will be more manageable and also you can use it to install on other machines over the network.

for i in PH*.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /var/spool/sw
done

The above will copy all of the depot into /var/spool/sw

hope this helps!

kind regards
yogeeraj
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