Patch info

[P.V.Ramesh]

Hi

How can i know the patch information. Also let me know from you how to add/delte a patch.

[Rajasekhar Raman]

Do you mean, patches installed on the system? If so, type "swlist -l product " to get a list of all software products as well as patches installed on your system.

You can subscribe to Patch Releases for your particular platform the HP support site. They will send you e-mail periodically with all the patches for your system.

-Shekar

[Pete Randall]

The patch comes with a text file describing it. It is added with swinstall and removed with swremove.

Does that help?

Pete

[harry d brown jr]

swinstall
swremove

live free or die
harry

[Sajid_1]

# swlist -lfileset | grep PHNE_XXXX

give the patch name there and will tell you the information.

TO install patch:
# swinstall -x options -s /tmp/patch_name.depot

To learn more about a patch, enter your patch number here:
http://support1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

'swlist' discloses patch information. For 11.x releases, 'show_patches' provides a front-end with a nicely formatted output. 'check_patches' is also very useful following patch installation which is done with 'swinstall'.

For an excellent discussion of patch management see this white paper:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/5967-3578.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sajid_1]

Also for removing patch:
# swremove

[Srinivas_14]

Hi Run the follwing command and it will list
all the patches installed on your system.

swlist -l fileset -a patch_state *.*,c=patch | grep -v superseded

Thanks

[harry d brown jr]

THis might help:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x316efd3f91d3d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/TopSolutions/1,,BR702248!1!questions,00.html

live free or die
harry

[Dirk Wiedemann]

if you have download a .depot-file of a patch you can do the following:
- tar -xvf name.depot
- cd to the patch-directory
- if swlock-file not exist: touch catalog/swlock
- swinstall -s `pwd`

Dirk

[P.V.Ramesh]

Hi

Thanks for early reply.

I am expecting a command which gives information about OS it's release and it's patch info.

For example:

In solaris if type

"uname -a"
the output is as follows

SunOS simba 5.5.1 Generic_103640-37 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4.

It includes all the info. If you notice the above the field Generic_103640-37 is patch information.

In this fashion i would like to know which command will provide this information.

I have tried the same command on HP-UX. but it differs.

I will assign the points after getting correct information.

Thanks

[Pete Randall]

The answer(s) have already been given. Use swlist.

Pete

[Sajid_1]

You can use this:
# swlist (list all installed softwares, applications and patches)
# swlist -lfileset (more details about file systems)
# uname -a (hostname, model name, OS version etc)

Also another useful system information command:
# print_manifest

[harry d brown jr]

a hundred or so replies to answer?

This member has assigned points to 25 of 129 responses to his/her questions.

[harry d brown jr]

Of course not that it matters.