swinstall issue

[harmt01]

I have a patch server with the lastest Golden patch registered here. Patch server installs this patch just fine. I have two remote servers that think the depot is a tape drive and therefore will not install depot because it is not local. How do I correct this issue?
I give "Points"

Tom

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Tom:

I believe that you need to 'swreg' your depot so that your remote systems can see it.

Regards!

...JRF...

[harmt01]

I did "swreg -l depot /path/Golde......"

They see it but when I select the patch it pops up a box and tells me the remote server thinks it a tape drive....

Local server has no issue with it. I d/l it from HPs site.

Tom

[Ivan Krastev · Accepted solution]

Can you post the full swreg command ?

Perhaps you have registered Golden???.depot file as a depot.
In this case you can install it only locally.

Fore remote installations register and create local depot directory and copy all files from depot file to that dir with swcopy.

regards,
ivan

[harmt01]

Yes, I did because I thought that was correct

swreg -l depot /path to file/goldenfile

Tom

[harmt01]

swcopy said it can not copy to the same server as the source.

swcopy /tmp/GOLD???.depot /sysadmin/swdepot/

Do I have to unregister it?

[Tim Nelson]

swinstall

You then have a menu driven interface to select the server and path that the patches lie on...

no need to copy them again.

If you did not swcopy the patches into a registered depot on serverA then simply ..

swinstall -s serverA:/path/to/patches

[Ivan Krastev]

Use the following syntax:

swcopy -x enforce_dependencies=false -s /tmp/Golden.depot \* @ /path/depot

regards,
ivan