Bundle Installation Error

[Cliff Lim Kok Hwee]

Gd Day Forum,

Currently my server is running HP-UX 11.00 with the following QPK,

QPK1100 B.11.00.64.4 Quality Pack for HP-UX 11.00, March 2004

I tried to install the following bundle,

A6795A B.11.00.10 PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel

but the error message appears as follows,

Error: A later revision of bundle QPK1100 r=B.11.00.56.5 has been installed. Either remove this bundle or change the allow_downdate option to "true".

Query: Dun think I will remove the bundle. How do I set the allow_downdate option to "true". Where it invalidate the already installed QPK1100?

thanks n regards/cliff

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

Are you sure you are installing A6795A and not the QPK1100 r=B.11.00.56.5 ?

I would not advice you to downgrade. What you can do is install A6795A and after this installation reinstall QPK1100 B.11.00.64.4
Regards,

Gideon

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi again,

The answer to your question How do I set the allow_downdate option to "true".
swinstall -x allow_downdate=true

But again i would not advice it.

Gideon

[Biswajit Tripathy]

Summary : DON'T USE allow_downdate=true
UNLESS YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE!!

Details:
As you are installing A6795A and swinstall is
complaining about QPK1100 bundle, my guess is
QPK1100 bundle is part of the depot that you are
using to install A6795A. If "allow_downdate=true"
option is used during swinstall, it will replace your
current version of QPK1100 with an older version.
So, as I said before, don't do it unless you have
another depot containing the latest version of
QPK1100. If you do have another depot with latest
version of QPK1100, then you could install A6795A
with allow_downdate=true option and when done,
reinstall latest version of QPK1100 from the other
depot.

Hope this is clear.
- Biswajit