patch vs depot

[Donald Thaler]

I've been dowloading patches from the hp website for dataprotector 6.0 and some of them come over as .depot files and some have no extension (i.e. phss_36100) . I know how to handle the .depot files but what's with the other one ???

[James George_1]

Hi

Select all the single patches that you want to download from the HP site and then, download it with tar option. After down loading it and when you untar it , there will be a create_depot script in the tar bundle. ( remember to put all this patch files in a temperory directory).

then you run this create_depot script from HP and it will create a depot for you .

Rgds/ James

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Donald:

You want to 'unshar' the file --- its a shell archive:

# sh PHXX_nnnn

This will create a '.txt' and a '.depot' file.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Donald Thaler]

for james ferguson: the sh almost worked i get a syntax error on line xxx '<<' is not matched... the .txt file is created but not the depot...

for james george: i don't see any option on the hp website to 'tar' the file

[John Guster]

you as root do
#sh PHSS_36100

please post result here.

[James George_1]

you could use any of the down load options, either zip or tar or ...


James

[Donald Thaler]

This is the error...

x - PHSS_35905.text
x - PHSS_35905.depot [non-ascii]
PHSS_35905[958]: Syntax error at line 962 : `<<' is not matched.


james george: when i go to the hp website and i click on download i don't see anything that allows me to identify whether i want the file tar'd ,zip'd ??

[John Guster]

for each individual patch, there are 2 choices: HTTP or ftp. If you select ftp, then next page bring you to th site something like:ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/11.X/PHCO_31923, here PHCO_31923 as an example. don't save it, but go to you UNIX system, do:
#ftp ftp.itrc.hp.com, give anonymous login and give the password, go the directory hp-ux_patches/s700_800/11.X;get PHCO_31923;exit from ftp, then do sh PHCO_31923

If you select many patches at the same time, it will give you winzip file or give you a script to down load, which is depending on the size of the patch bundle.
If you don't see "tar", then your patch size does not fit that catagry. Hope help. Good Luck.

[whiteknight]

Donald,

try to #sh PHSS_36100 11.23 OV DP6.00 IA-64 patch - LOCALIZATION packet

Make sure you are installing DP patch for IA box not PA box (it will not work).

WK

[Dennis Handly]

x - PHSS_35905.text
x - PHSS_35905.depot [non-ascii]
PHSS_35905[958]: Syntax error at line 962 : `<<' is not matched.

This typically means the patch is corrupted because you didn't download it in binary mode.
Or since "<<" is part of a here document, the file was truncated.

>when i go to the hp website and i click on download i don't see anything that allows me to identify whether i want the file tar'd ,zip'd?

As mentioned, this only happens if you download more then one patch.