Download of patches

[LucianoCarvalho]

Hi Guys!

I'm havin problems to download a bundle of custom patches in
ITRC.
I've ran a patch assessment trough ITRC "Custom Patch Bundle"
area, and the assessment resulted a bundle of about 450MB.

The problem begins when I try to download the bundle throug
the website.
Instead of downloading the entire bundle, the process is been
aborted after download reachs something near 300MB of the
bundle. I use Iternet explorer 6.0, and its is configured with
2GB of temporary space. Mey PC has 16GB of free space.

I tried to use a download manager (GetRight) but, It can't
connect to ITRC to start the download.
So, what can I do to donwload files like that (450MB)wihtout
having problems with timeout.

thanks in advance.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

I have had problems with large patch bundles (around 400-450MB) in the past as well. I wound up applying the latest Quality Pack of patches, then re-running the assessment. The new patch bundle was around 250MB and I had no trouble getting it downloaded.

I am not sure the problem is with you. I think the ITRC patch machine can't quite handle a bundle that big.

See if you can split up the bundle, or do something to try an eliminate some of the patches you are downloading to reduce the size and see what happens.

[Fabio Ettore]

Hi Luciano,

in the last period of time I heard many times this question and every times I think it is a problem about ITRC site.
Try to submit it to 'contact hp' and select 'ask a question about using IT resource center'.

Best regards,
Ettore

[Steven E. Protter]

I have solved this problem with itrc's help.

There is a new option on patch download.

Download with an ftp script.

Its not perfect, if you include the June 2003 Bundle, the script comes out zero bytes.

What you get is an ftp script.

You download that:
sh patches.sh

then run get_patches

This gets around whatever networking issue is terminating the backups early.

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