Hi -
Wow, that was fast!
Original question:
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I applied Patch Kit #4 last week. I just issued a
setld -i|grep PAT|grep -v installed
and got back a number of items indicating to me that there are a number of
patches that are not installed. However, when I run dupatch for patch kit 4
I get a message:
All patches in /usr/du_patches/patch_kit/DIGITAL_UNIX_V4.0F/kit are
already installed.
How do I fix this? the setld command I issued above returns 60 rows (60
patches not installed). Do I have to install each one manually via setld?
This is a DS20E running 4.0F.
Answer:
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dupatch doesn't necessarily install everything. patches may show up as not
installed if 1) the product it's fixing isn't installed or 2) other
dependencies are not present.
Responses:
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Not all the patches in the kit will be applicable to your system. You can
check the patch logs in /var/adm/patch/log to see why any given patch was
not
installed.
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depending on the patch dependencies on other subsets, then patches will be
installed, hoever if the dependent subsets arenot present then the patches
will not installed. However they will be present within the .smdb.
directory as this directory has entries for these patches.
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When you installed the patches with the dupatch utiltity which was part of
the patch-kit then there shouldn't be a problem. Not all patches in a
patchkit have to be installed. Every patch has some dependencies on which
dupatch can deside wether or not to install a patch.
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Not every patch is installed on every system as some of them are specific to
certain layered products. In other cases the patch may have not have changed
from the previous kit and is already installed.
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The dupatch is supposed to check dependencies so I wouldnt mess w/ it. It is
a good chance that you have patches that are not installed because they are
for things do you not have installed, or possibly they show up as not
installed if they are superceded by a later patch.
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I'm still going to pursue this to ensure everything is ok but now I'm not as
concerned about these patches.
Thank you everyone!
Andy Cohen
Oracle Database Administrator
Cognex Corporation
1 Vision Drive
Natick, MA 01760-2059
voice: 508/650-3079 email: acohen_at_cognex.com
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Received on Mon Aug 14 2000 - 14:08:14 NZST