Swcopy error

[Roger Baptiste]

Hi,

On a V class, 11.00 box:

I hit upon the following error while doing a Swcopy of a patch depot from one 11.00 box to another 11.00 box :

" ERROR: Could not apply the software selection "PHKL_13203, r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP" because a different variant of this same product has already been selected".

This error occurs as soon as i select a patch from the list displayed on the swcopy screen.
The same error occurs for over 40 patches. Even if i try copying a
single patch, the same error occurs.

Any idea what this could be due to?

thanks
raj

[Alex Glennie]

I think this problem occurs because of the same attributes that two different filesets have. The only difference between the two is the fileset architecture attribute. Therefore, you have to add 'fa' attribute in
the command line.

,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32 @
/depot/all/11.00/patches
or

,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_64 @
/depot/all/11.00/patches

I can't see a patch out for this and this maybe a separate problem, if this does not fix , what version of swcopy are you using ? what swcopy ?

[Cheryl Griffin]

This was a common issue with the OV SD-UX version A.02.01.

[Philip Kernohan]

Raj,

It may be that you have the latest patch dependency information accessible by the swcopy on this server and the patch is already superseded by one already in the depot you are copying to or in the bundle you are attempting to copy. In the example you give PHKL_13203 has been superseded by PHKL_22393.

Also, make sure you have enforce_dependencies=false set to prevent swcopy from doing dependency analysis on the depot. This should be set to false for swcopy's where the software being copied it not necessarily for that server type, OS etc. You can set this through the GUI options or on the command line using -x.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Philip

[Roger Baptiste]

Thanks for the responses.

Alex > I didn't get what you meant
by using ",fa= " option. I use the
interactive swcopy command .
Can you please elaborate on how
to sneak in the fa option into
the command?

The version of /usr/sbin/swcopy is:
$Revision: 5.1, SD-OV/A.02.01, SD-UX/B.11.01, CONTROLLER, Optimized, Built Apr 30 1999 04:14:53$

Cheryl>> Common issue? So,is this
a known bug ? any idea of a
patch or fix for it?

Philip> I tried the enforce_dependency=false, but i get
the same error. Since, i am making
a new depot itself, i don't think
the dependency is the issue here.

thanks
raj