How to depot the patch

[woodman]

Hi all,

I have 4 patch which need reboot, could you tell me how to make 4 patch as single depot file.

Thanks
woodman

[J. Bravo]

Hello.

Try it with swcopy:

Copy the patches to a directory (/tmp/patch)
#cd /tmp/patch
#tar xvf file.tar
#for i in PH*
do
sh $i
done

All your patches are unshared now

#mkdir depot
#for i in *.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /tmp/patch/depot
done

Regards;

J. Bravo.

[Denver Osborn]

When you swcopy the patch using the for i loop as suggested, add "-x enforce_dependencies=false" option to swcopy.

swcopy -x enforce_dependencies=false -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /tmp/patch/depot


-denver

[Ivan Krastev]

Also don't forget to add '-x auto_reboot=true' when installing patches.

regards,
ivan

[Dennis Handly]

>J. Bravo: Copy the patches to a directory (/tmp/patch)
>Denver: When you swcopy the patch using the for i loop as suggested

If you download multiple patches at once, you get a script create_depot_hp-ux_11 that does all of this for you.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

if you're new to hp-ux it's not bad to use the graphical user interfaces (gui) for such functions.
With 'swcopy' and 'swinstall' you get these gui's.
With swcopy you can collect such patches in one (patch) directory.
With swinstall you can choose all patches in one patch directory to install at once.

HTH
Volkmar

[Dennis Handly]

>Volkmar: With swcopy you can collect such patches in one (patch) directory.

They are called depots, or directory depots. Vs tape depots that the patches have.

>With swinstall you can choose all patches in one patch directory

Yes, all or part of one depot.

[James George_1]

when you untar the downloaded patches , there should be a create_depot script. You run that script and it will create the depot for you .

Rgds / James

[Javed Sarwar]

use swcopy without any options, and select the patches by browsing through the menus.

You can them select all of them and copy them into a central directory, swcopy will do the swreg for you, and will advertise the depot for you.

Javy