swinstall

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Hi,
I have patches to install which I have downloaded to ~myhome/my_depot, did a shar on it and tried installing. Swinstall is not recognizing thr software. Please advise asap.
It says no depot software found.

# swinstall -s /home/pzanwar/my_depot/*
I have restarted the agent daemon.

Please advise urgent as this is urgent.
Thanks and regards
Prashant

======= 08/31/04 13:08:32 EDT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@crdushp6".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "crdushp6:/".
* "crdushp6:/home/pzanwar/my_depot/PHCO_13808.depot": This
source is a tape device.
* "crdushp6:/home/pzanwar/my_depot/PHCO_13808.depot": Cannot
open the logfile on this target or source. Possibly the media
is read-only or there is a permission problem. Check the
daemon logfile and "/var/tmp/swagent.log" on this host for
more information.
ERROR: Could not apply the software selection
"/home/pzanwar/my_depot/PHCO_24189.depot"; it is not available
from depot or root
"crdushp6:/home/pzanwar/my_depot/PHCO_13808.depot".
* Software selection failed for
"crdushp6:/home/pzanwar/my_depot/PHCO_13808.depot".
ERROR: No software has been selected.
ERROR: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.
* Selection had errors.

[Rick Garland]

Have you registered the depot that you created in ~myhome/my_depot?

Do 'swlist -l depot' and the return from this command will display currently registered depots. To registered a depot use the 'swreg' command.

[Suresh Pai]

I believe the correct cmd is:
swinstall -s /home/pzanwar/my_depot/PHCO_13808.depot PHCO_13808

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

I think you should be able to swcopy the software to a depot, and then install it.

HTH,

Gideon

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Prashant,

Suresh had the correct answer. You will need to specify the product that you are going to install from that depot.

swinstall -s /tmp/pzanwar/my_dpeot/PHCO_24189.depot \*

Should non-interactively install the patch.

Otherwise, bring up the swinstall CLI or GUI and select the depot manually.

-Sri

[Rick Garland]

You original post indicates that you have multiple patches to install. If true, you can use the swinstall -s from the command line to install each patch individually. If some of the patches require reboot, then you will have multiple reboots. This does not take into account the dependencies that may be present between patches.

Putting the patches into a depot and register that depot means you can install all patches at once and the dependencies will be satisfied (assuming you have downloaded all dependent patches).

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Hi,
I am able to execute the swinstall on required patches, but now it says the installation is skipped a later version of patch is present. How to find the patch's later patch.
Prashant

[Rick Garland]

You can look at the ITRC patch site and see what superceded the patch in question.

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Hi,
I have PHCO_13808 in question. System says another patch is installed instead of this. Site says this is not been supersaded by any patch when read details of 13808. How to know?
Thanks
Prashant

[Rick Garland]

Also look in /var/adm/sw/patch/PATCH.log and grep for Superceded.

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Hi,
I have seen on the site, it says

The recommended patch is : PHCO_26089
The most recent patch is : PHCO_29249

Does this means 13808 is supersaded by these patches..I dont see any of these are installed on my system.
Thanks
Prashant

[Rick Garland]

I show PHCO_26089 is the later and HP Recommended patch

[RAC_1]

There are two very helpful commands.

show_patches
check_patches

Anil

[Rick Garland]

Yes, these 2 patches you mentioned were the supercede patches