Installing kernel patches

[Richard Patenaude]

Hi,

I have a series of kernel patches I have to install on a hp-ux 11.0 server. Is there a way to install them without having to reboot after each an everyone of them?

Richard.

[Ian Dennison_1]

Refer this link. Basically a series of 'swcopy' commands to a newly created directory will build a depot that can be used to install many patches with only one reboot.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xbc8cabe92dabd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Share and enjoy! ian

[harry d brown jr]

Yes,

Go to the "IT Resource Center Home"

Under "Maintenance and Support", select "more..."

Under "Patching", select "customized patch bundles".

And perform a custom patch bundle. This ensures you get all of the patches you need, not just a selected few.

There are other ways to "bundle" the patches, but the "Custom Patch Manager" is the safest!

live free or die
harry

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
Yes, by making a depot an than installing that
depot.
Example
root/sv00220#swcopy -vv -s /var/adm/crash/patch/PHKL_18543.depot \*
@ /var/adm/crash/patch/veritas

root/sv00220#swcopy -vv -s /var/adm/crash/patch/PHCO_23651.depot \*
@ /var/adm/crash/patch/veritas

root/sv00220#swinstall -vv -p > -x autoreboot=true > -x patch_match_target=true > -x autoselect_patches=true > -s /var/adm/crash/patch/veritas \*

Regards,
Tom

[Tom Geudens]

Wow ... that last command got seriously mangled ...
The install should be
root/sv00220#swinstall -vv -p -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -x autoselect_patches=true -s /var/adm/crash/patch/veritas \*

Regards,
Tom

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Richard:

Do this (assuming that your patches reside in /tmp):

PDIR=/tmp/patch_depot
mkdir $PDIR
cd /tmp
for X in PH*.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/${X} \* @ ${PDIR}
done
#
swlist -s ${PDIR}

...Now specify $PDIR as you source depot for the 'swinstall'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Deshpande Prashant]

HI
Copy all the patches in depot and then install it from the depot.

for i in `ls PH*.depo`
do
swcopy -s ${i} \* @ ${PATCH_DEPOT_DIR}
done

Once copied in depot use
#swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s

Thanks.
Prashant.


Thanks.
Prashant

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Richard,

Try these links,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=fc5f11c3127e38250d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000045145898

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=fc5f11c3127e38250d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055333529

Hope this helps.

Regds