PHSS_20122 (s700_800 11.0 cumulative pxdb patch)

[Omar Alvi_1]

Hi,

Oracle 11i requires this patch to be installed on HP-UX 11.00. The patch has no dependencies (Hardware or Software) or special instructions

However, on trying to install the patch we get the following NOTE in swagent.log

NOTE: The patch fileset "PHSS_20122.DEBUG-PRG,r=1.0" may only be installed upon a previously installed base fileset. The specification for this base fileset is "DebugPrg.DEBUG-PRG,fr=B.11.01.06,v=HP". Since there is no fileset on the target or selected from the source which matches this specification, fileset "PHSS_20122.DEBUG-PRG,r=1.0" will be excluded.

Also on one attempt, the following messages appeared on the terminal

NOTE: The patch match operation failed to find patches for target software on "apptest" which passed the filter.
NOTE: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.

So the result is that the patch was not installed. I even tried installing the patch by altering the dependency and incompatibility options in swinstall.

Any ideas?

-Alvi

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

The DEBUG fileset belongs to the full ANSI C compiler - so this patch is a patch for that. Oralce does NOT require a full HP ANSI C compiler installed which means this patch is NOT necesssary - unless you have an ANSI C compiler installed for some other reason like you have an application that needs it;

B3901BA B.11.02.04 HP C/ANSI C Developer's Bundle for HP-UX 11.00 (S800)
# B3901BA.DebugPrg B.11.11.04 Debugging Support Tools
B3901BA.DebugPrg.DEBUG-PRG B.11.11.04 Debugging Support Tools

[Omar Alvi_1]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the help.
I wanted to know if there's a simlpe way of getting to know for which product a particular PHSS patch is required.

[Stefan Farrelly]

Theres not really a simple way to check which product a patch is for, except to look at the filesets section of the patch description, eg for PHSS_20122 it says;

Filesets:
DebugPrg.DEBUG-PRG,fr=B.11.01.06,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP
DebugPrg.DEBUG-PRG,fr=B.11.01.01,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP
DebugPrg.DEBUG-PRG,fr=B.11.00,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP

Now, as it says fr=B.11.01.06 this means it applies to a product (could be licensed or not licensed) - ie. its a patch for a particular product and not just a simple patch for the OS. Unfortunately it doesnt say in the patch description which product it requires which means there is no simple way to figure it out.

We keep a depot with a dump of all the latest apps CD's on it, and I did a search through all of it with swlist -l fileset which found the product the DEBUG-PRG fileset belongs to, and then on checking the product I could see it required a license. I guess this is the easiest way to check - but you need a dump of all the apps cd's somewhere on disk to be able to check easily and quickly.

[Omar Alvi_1]

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I now get the idea of how to correlate the patch with the product.