Hi Gurus,
Thanks to:
Bryan Lavelle <Bryan.Lavelle_at_digital.com>
Alan Davis <Davis_at_Tessco.Com>
Phil Farrell <farrell_at_pangea.Stanford.EDU>
C.Ruhnke <i769646_at_smrs013a.mdc.com>
John Speno <speno_at_isc.upenn.edu>
"Sean O'Connell" <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>
The answer is that the patches exist but not in the form
of dupatch installable (i.e. the jumbo ones); everything
shall be done manually, patch by patch. In addition, they
are not in the web and some cash is necessary...
See Bryan's reply:
> It appears that this patch kit exists on internal servers only. If you
> don't have a software contract (and I assume you don't because of the
> revision of software you are running) you will need to contact Compaq
> Support and arrange for a Pay Per Call service event. If you do this, tell
> them you are looking for patch kit patches.osf-v3.2-05oct96.tar.Z . I've
> spent some time looking and believe this to be the patch kit you are looking
> for. Be sure to dump your / and /usr filesystems before installing any
> patch kit.
>
> Also, I hope you are aware of the Year 2000 problem with any Digital Unix
> product version lower that 4.0d.
and Alan's reply:
> There /is/ a patch kit for v3.2, but it's only available
> from Compaq Services by logging a software support call.
> It's not, and never has been, on the public web site.
>
> Note that support for versions prior to v4.0b are on a best
> effort basis only, official support and new bug fixes are
> not available.
>
> Note, also, that the kit is pre-dupatch and consists of individual
> files that you copy into place manually.
Original post:
> I was trying to find a jumbo patch for DEC OSF/1 V3.2 (Rev. 214)
> in ftp.service.digital.com, /public/dunix/v3.2 but could not find
> out what file was that (I was expecting something like duv3.2*tar
> or maybe osf13.2*.tar).
> Can anybody help me?
Thanks a lot,
Oyanarte Portilho
Institute of Physics
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Received on Wed Feb 03 1999 - 21:01:52 NZDT