Excluding a single item from a bundle when installing

[Norman Yamane]

Hi,

I'm configuring an Ignite profile that will use the Support Plus CD to install the GOLDBASE11i patch bundle. However, there is a single patch in the bundle that I do not want to install (for application compatability reasons...).

Using patch_filter won't work since its categories are not unique within the bundle. The only unique identifier that is available is the name of the patch itself.

Possible solutions that I've come up with are :

1) List all of the patches into a file and delete the unwanted patch from this list. Use this file as a software_selection file.

2) Pull apart the original patch bundle and remake it without the offending patch.

Is there another more elegant way of doing this?

Cheers,
Norm

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
use the following procedure:

swinstall -s /cdrom/GOLD.....

mark the patch bundle

after that, using the arrow keys, highlight the bundle and press enter.


You will get into the bundle, select the patch that you do not want and de-select it.

Massimo

[Tim Adamson_1]

I think your two suggestions are pretty good. I can't think of a more elegant method.

The only suggestion I would offer is to be careful if you go with option 2. If you like to see the reference bundle when you use swlist, make sure you rebundle it correctly.

One other possible method is to install the entire bundle and then have an Ignite post install/configure script that swremoves the offending patch.

Good luck!


Tim

[Norman Yamane]

Thanks Massimo and Tim

I was looking for more of a non-interactive method but the interface will work in a pinch. It's just that I don't trust that the installer will actually *do* this step... :-)

Adding a swremove to the final_cmd is a good compromise I think.

Cheers,
Norman