It seems that dupatch was messing up the path to the patch kit. If I entered
/home/patch_kit as the path , dupatch would look at /home/../patch_kit.
By changing to the directory where the kit was and giving dupatch a ../ as the
path things seem to work.
The original post follows as well as a response form Dr. Tom Blinn that gave me
the idea to look at the script.
Steve Coates
reSource Partner
> I am trying to install patch kit 5 on a 4.0D system that is currently at patch
> kit 2. When I try to install the patch the dupacth utility tells me there are
no
> installable patches.
>
> Any clue to why this is.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Steve Coates
> reSource Partner
No real clue, but the suggestion that you might use setld to check
what appears to be installed on the system (setld -i | grep -i install)
and make sure there appear to be subsets installed. Sometimes you'll
get someone who decides that space in /usr is more important than being
able to maintain the system and they remove the files from /usr/.smdb.
and then it looks to things like the patch utility that there are no
software components installed.
The dupatch utility is a big shell script, so you might be able to get
it to emit more messages about what it's doing. But when it says that
it thinks there are no installable patches, it usually means some part
of the logic is confused by the system's /usr/.smdb. contents, or by
what was delivered in the patch kit itself (you are pointing to where
the patch kit was unpacked, right?).
Tom
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Received on Tue Dec 21 1999 - 18:59:59 NZDT