Uncompress and untar a downloaded patch set file

[Brando Sumayao]

How do you uncompress and untar a downloaded patch set file into a new directory?

Thanks!

[Varghese Mathew]

Hi,

Can be this way..
1) copy the patch file over to the /tmp directory
2) edit the copied file and remove the unwanted lines in the beginning of the file - which is clearly marked at the top of the file..
2) #sh phco_XXXXX.html (the file - which will uncompress and unshar the file- which creates two file named PHCO_XXXXX.txt and PHCO_XXXXX.depot.
3) then to install the patch ...--> swinstall -s /tmp/PHCO_XXXXX.depot
thats it u have started installing it - please note that many of the patches installation requires reboot especially the PHKL series patches...

Hope it helps..
Cheers !!!
Mathew

[Brando Sumayao]

Thanks Mathew. I will give it a try and appreciate your help!

[Roger Baptiste]

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One additional thing to note is that the
*.txt file contains details and instructions
to install that patch.

-raj

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,
copy the patch file to a /tmp/patches directory.

#sh
#swreg -l depot /tmp/patches/
#swinstall /tmp/patches/

Thanks

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

If you are installing any type of kernel patch
make sure that the analysis has no errors.

So if you are using 'swinstall' from the command line make sure you use the preview mode for any type of kernel or reboot patch.

# swinstall -p -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s

-Michael