Bundle Packages merging?

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

Is there anyone know about to keep more than one bundle packages under same bundle ?
I have three bundle packages. All three bundles package include patches PHKL_xxxxx and caused to reboot end of the installation completes, that means three times reboot on working hp ux system is not good.
Is there any way to make single reboot for more than one bundle that includes Kernel patches ??

[Ivan Krastev]

Create one depot, containing all the required patches with swcopy and install it at once.
This will require only one reboot.


regards,
ivan

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

I ve created from different sources like .depot and BUNDLE package as mixed copied under my depot directory that I created before.
Sound goods now, question is tehre any possibility this new created depot directory to copy a CD (or DVD) and distribute it another server directly (without making creation directories swcopying depots..) like a single depot or Bundle file ?
is it possible without workaround ?

[Tim Nelson]

Your conolidated bundle can be used from any server without recopying it. This one feature of SD.

e.g.

I have a single server that I use as my software distibution server call it serverA.
I have swcopied the software that I need into one/or more repositories.

On serverB I simply tell swinstall to get its software from serverA. During an interactive session, select or type the source host as serverA, then click on source depot path. A list of all registered depots on serverA will be listed for selection.

If other servers do not have network connectivity to serverA you can either copy the source to CD, or ftp it to another server.

[Dennis Handly]

Typically if you download more than one patch into your ITRC shopping cart, you get a script that will swcopy the patches into one large depot, create_depot_hp-ux_11.

Take a look at it.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

> distribute it another server directly ...

Software Distributor has it's own networking built in. Once you create your depot (or depots), you simply register the depot with swreg. Then every system on your entire network can see and load from the depot(s).

Suppose you create a depot on serverA in the directory called /var/tmp/mydepot:

swreg -l /var/tmp/mydepot

Then type:

swlist -l depot

and you'll see your depot on the local server. Login to serverB and type this command:

swlist -l depot @ serverA

Now you will see the depot from serverB. To install from serverB:

swinstall -s serverA:/var/tmp/mydepot prod1

or to install everything in the depot:

swinstall -s serverA:/var/tmp/mydepot \*

If any of the patches are PHKL or PHNE, a reboot may be required so add -o autoreboot=true to give permission for a kernel rebuild and reboot.

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

Thank you for our answers. I want to ask another question about selection from HP UX Patch database; in case of most recent patch is different from recommended, which patch do I have to install only most recent OR both ? most recent means to make obsolete the previous patch ??
Thanks.

[Bill Hassell]

All HP-UX patches will include dependencies and requisite software which is checked before the patch is installed. You see a 1,2,3 star rating for each patch which is essentially the age of the patch plus its reliability based on testing and customer feedback. You do not need to install previous (older, superceeded) patches to install the current one. Patches are selected by swinstall based on their internal requirements and will be skipped if the patch does not apply or have the correct requirements.

[Dennis Handly]

>which patch do I have to install

You need to decide if you want to take the latest and risk possible problems or be conservative.

Here is the description of the ratings:
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.html.patchDBCandidateListHelp
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.html.hpuxRatingHelp