patch for lbolts

[TSancho]

One of my co-workers was installing patches to take care of an lbolt issue that caused bogus messages related to plasmon drives. They stopped because it stated that it had failed. They were loading dependancy patch so primary was not installed. When I do a swlist -l patch '*.*, c=patch' it shows that PHKL_24187.Core-KRN Applied. Attached is what the swagent.log gave them. I did correct a space problem that was identified in the logfile but I don't know if the patch is really installed. Can I trust what it says so I can schedule reboot time because I still have another patch to install PHKL_29041 to correct my original problem.

[Scott Marer · Accepted solution]

Patches must be in the configured state. Applied just means it is in place but the configure scripts have not yet been run.

You can combine patches to be installed at the same time :

Creating SD-UX depot

If you have several individual patches which you need to install
it is useful to package them all together into one patch depot.
This way you do not need to run update or swinstall multiple
times and if patches require a reboot the system will reboot
only once.

Example of creating a SD-UX depot containing 3 different patches.

1. Retrieve the patches for instance from a patch server or web site :

# mkdir /tmp/patches
# cd /tmp/patches

Copy patches via ftp, rcp ... into this directory.

# ls
PHCO_5400 PHCO_6573 PHCO_6587

2. Unpack all patches :

# sh PHCO_5400
# sh PHCO_6573
# sh PHCO_6587

3. Create a patch depot :

# mkdir /tmp/patch_depot
# swcopy -v -x enforce_dependencies=false -s /tmp/patches/PHCO_5400.depot PHCO_5400 @ /tmp/patch_depot
...
# swcopy -v -x enforce_dependencies=false -s /tmp/patches/PHCO_6587.depot PHCO_6587 @ /tmp/patch_depot
...
# swcopy -v -x enforce_dependencies=false -s /tmp/patches/PHCO_6573.depot PHCO_6573 @ /tmp/patch_depot

4. Register the depot (optional)

# swreg -l depot /tmp/patch_depot

5. Now call swinstall and specify /tmp/patch_depot as your source.

If you need to copy the depot to a tape use the following command :
# swpackage -s /tmp/patch_depot -x target_type=tape -d /dev/rmt/0m "*"

[Eugeny Brychkov]

In addition to Scott's - how to check if patch configured or not
swlist -l fileset -a state
Eugeny