swpackage to tape

[Chris Fadrowski]

how do i take a group of unshar'd patches from one server, put them on a DDS3 tape so i can install them on another server?

can someone help me with this procedure? or best practice?

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

Assuming all those patches are in the same directory:

patchdir=/some/directory/name

cd $patchdir
DEPOT=$PWD/depot
for PATCH in *.depot
do
swcopy -x enforce_dependencies=FALSE \
-x mount_all_filesystems=FALSE \
-x reinstall=TRUE \
-x write_remote_files=TRUE \
-x layout_version=1.0 \
-d -s $PWD/$PATCH.depot \* @ $DEPOT

swpackage -s $PSF \
-x write_remote_files=TRUE \
-x layout_version=1.0 \
@ $DEPOT

swverify -d -x mount_all_filesystems=FALSE \
-x enforce_dependencies=FALSE \
\* @ $DEPOT

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
{
echo "ERROR: swverify of depot failed."
ERRORS=1
}
fi

if [ $ERRORS -eq 1 ]; then
echo "ERROR: Errors were found while building depot."
fi

tar -cvf /dev/rmt/0m depot

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on the other system


patchdir=/some/directory/name
cd $patchdir
tar -xvf /dev/rmt/0m

swreg -l depot $PWD/depot

swinstall -s $PWD/depot


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This may not be what you are looking for. You may want the tape to be used as a depot but, if you do not have severe space problems on either servers, I would suggest using the tape just a s a transport container nothing more. Installing software from a disk depot is much faster than doing it via tape.

HTH

[Marvin Strong]

never tried to to tape this might work.

swcopy -s {list} {of} {patches} @ {tapedevice}

[Michael Roberts_3]

To create a tape from directory depots you use swpackage:

swpackage -s /patch/depot -x media_type=tape @ /dev/rmt/0m

[Chris Fadrowski]

okay, that's what i thought, i tried this and i keep getting this

* Writing the tape "/dev/rmt/0m" (tape 1 of 1).
* Writing the fileset "PHKL_31500.100BT-KRN" (1 of 159)
ERROR: Cannot open file
"/h07/patches/depot/PHKL_31500/100BT-KRN/usr/conf/lib/libbtlan.a".
No such file or directory (2).
ERROR: Failed to write the software object: "fileset contents" to the
output tape file.

* Removing the temporary depot.


now, PHKL_31500 is not in the depot but it is a dependency of one of the patches that i want on the tape. PHKL_31500 is however installed on the system. any ideas?

[Greg Vaidman]

Chris,
Add '-x autoselect_dependencies=false' to your swcopy/swpackage command line...
--Greg

[Chris Fadrowski]

I am still getting the same thing on this patch PHKL_31500

[Greg Vaidman]

Chris,

Not sure why you'd still be getting this error with the new parameter, but please provide the exact command that's generating the error.

Have you tried to package all these patches into a bundle using 'make_bundles'?

Also, are you using a tape because you don't have network access from the systems you want to install the patches to the server where your patches are located? Don't know if you knew that if you put all the patches into a depot, you can pull them across the network to your target servers.

--Greg

[Raj D.]

Hi Chris ,

PHKL_31500 is a 100MB patch "s700_800 11.23 Sept04 base patch"

If you have good internet speed , it can be downloaded from itrc site in 10 min.

and the tar file can be extracted and , it will create the depo file , and can be installed easily , with
# swinstall -s /depotdir/filename.depot

Cheers.
Raj.