Installing Patches & dependencies

[Americo]

Hello,

when i have to install certain patches (ex:PHCO_25418) i see that it has dependencies and many times that dependencies have also dependencies...

Is there a way to create a bundle with the desire patch and the entire dependencies?

Thanks in advance,

Amer

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

http://itrc.hp.com
patch database
hpux

search and pick your patches, click the add to selection button.

Dependencies are calculated and a custom patch bundle can be built there for download.

SEP

[Americo]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for help.

Much more easy like that!:)

Best regards.

Amer

[Pete Randall]

Or you can download them individually and use swcopy to bundle them for installation:

for i in PH*
do
sh $i
done

for i in PH*.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /var/spool/sw
done



Pete

[Americo]

Thanks Pete.

Didn't know that too.

Download them is more easy but it's good to know that. Can help sometime.


Regards,

Amer

[Steven E. Protter]

The reason you sometimes need Pete's technique is this:

Once in a while I create a nice custom bundle, for a large number of patches and download patches.zip

The download appears to go okay, but the uznip command fails.

In that case I use the instructions above to create the list then a download script using an automated ftp program like snarfscript to download the individual patches.

I've not been able to put my finger on why I have to do this, so I just do it the first or second time patches.zip comes through corrupt.

SEP

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Americo,

Watch out for the LITS patch PHKL_18543, do not reinstall this one.

Kind regards,
Robert-Jan

[Americo]

Yes,

That's a situation where it can help.
Good to know that too.

Thanks a lot.

Amer

[Americo]

Sorry Robert... i don't understand your reply.

I think PHKL_18543 doesn´'t have connection with PHCO_25418, right?

Am

[Americo]

Hi Robert,

i saw now the "connection" with PHKL_18543.

Thaks.

Amer

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Yes it does

PHCO_25418 has the following dependencies:

PHKL_22677
notes 232 2000/11/22 s700_800 11.00 fix of getdirentries, MVFS, rcp, mmap & IDS

PHKL_18543
notes 12148 1999/06/28 s700_800 11.00 PM/VM/UFS/async/scsi/io/DMAPI/JFS/perf patch

PHKL_22589
notes 439 2000/11/06 s700_800 11.00 LOFS, select(), IDS/9000 and umount race fix

PHKL_27980
notes 444 2002/11/13 s700_800 11.00 VxFS 3.1 cumulative patch: CR_EIEM

PHKL_20016
notes 35 1999/10/05 s700_800 11.00 2nd CPU not recognized in G70/H70/I70

PHCO_23651
notes 512 2001/03/23 s700_800 11.00 fsck_vxfs(1M) cumulative patch

PHKL_28766
notes 1888 2003/04/02 s700_800 11.00 Probe,IDDS,PM,VM,PA-8700,AIO,T600,FS,PDC,CLK

PHCO_21187 21466 2000/06/15 s700_800 11.00 cumulative SAM/ObAM patch

Just watch that you do not reinstall PHKL_18543

Kind regards,
Robert-Jan

[Americo]

Hi Robert,

i don't have phkl_18543 installed in my system. can i have a problem in installing it, with the dependencies?

It seems i need to do that in order to install phco_25418.



Regards,

Amer