Creating a Patch Depot

Obtain the set of patches you want to place and manage in an SD depot. For example:

PHCO_7891 PHCO_9348 PHKL_9361 PHSS_7726 PHSS_8966 PHSS_9400
PHCO_8353 PHKL_8376 PHKL_9569 PHSS_8667 PHSS_9201

HP patches delivered by the Response Center or the web are shar files consisting of a serial depot and a ReadMe file.

Unshar the patches using:

for i in PH*
do
sh $i
done

Combine the separate depots into one depot:

Verify the contents of the depot:

swlist -d @ /var/opt/ignite/Patches

Here's the output for the example list of patches above:

Initializing...
Contacting target "interop1"...
Target: interop1:/var/opt/ignite/Patches
No Bundle(s) on interop1:/var/opt/ignite/Patches
Product(s):
PHCO_7891 B.10.00.00.AA allows mount to turnon hfs-specific opts
PHCO_8353 B.10.00.00.AA cumulative awk(1) patch
PHCO_9348 B.10.00.00.AA cron(1M) and at(1) patch
PHKL_8376 B.10.00.00.AA Fix vmtrace bug.
PHKL_9361 B.10.00.00.AA Fix panic caused by MP race
PHKL_9569 B.10.00.00.AA NFS and VxFS (JFS) cumulative patch
PHSS_7726 B.10.00.00.AA CDE Dtterm August 96 patch
PHSS_8667 B.10.00.00.AA CDE Runtime Nov96 Patch 
PHSS_8966 B.10.00.00.AA LIBCL cumulative patch 
PHSS_9201 B.10.00.00.AA fix for aC++ dld.sl
PHSS_9400 B.10.00.00.AA ld(1) cumulative patch

The output shows that the depot has "No Bundles." HP-UX Patches are SD "products", but Ignite-UX can only manage SD "Bundles."

Convert the individual patches into a single bundle and put the bundle in the Patches depot:

make_bundles -B -n Misc_Patches \
-t "HP-UX 11.00 Patches" /var/opt/ignite/Patches

Rerun swlist on this depot to verify that the bundle has been created:

swlist -d @ /var/opt/ignite/Patches

Here's the output assuming the example patches:

Initializing...
Contacting target "interop1"...
Target: interop1:/var/opt/ignite/Patches 
Bundle(s): 
Misc_Patches HP-UX 11.00 Patches

By default, swlist shows only the higher level software bundles. This command shows the patch "products" contained in the bundle:

swlist -l product -d @ /var/opt/ignite/Patches

	NOTE: If you need to add additional patches to the depot in the future, simply unshar the patches as described above, swcopy them into the Patches depot, and rerun make_bundles. This will repackage the depot.

If you would like to remove a patch from the depot, simply use the swremove command. You can either run swremove and use its friendlier user-interface, or run swremove in command-line mode. This example removes the PHKL_8376 patch from the depot:

swremove -d Misc_Patches.PHKL_8376 @ \ /var/opt/ignite/Patches

If you inadvertently create a bundle of a bundle (for example, if you add an HP product you want distributed with the patch depot), use swremove interactively to examine and delete the extra bundle.

Create a config file for the newly-created Misc_Patches bundle. Follow the steps outlined in "Adding a SD Bundle to the Archive Environment" in Chapter 8. Use /var/opt/ignite/Patches for your source depot and specify a new configuration file:

make_config -s /var/opt/ignite/Patches -a 700 \
-c /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/misc_patch_bundle_cfg

Modify the /var/opt/ignite/INDEX file to include the new bundle in our "HP-UX B.11.0 archive" configuration:

cfg "HP-UX B.11.00 archive" {
description "The ARCHIVE B.11.00 release with patches."
"/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/config"
"/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/core_700_archive_cfg"
"/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/patch_bundle_cfg"
"/var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/misc_patch_bundle_cfg"
"/var/opt/ignite/config.local" }

To force the installation of the new Misc_Patches bundle with the golden-image archive, add this line to the sw_sel clause for the patch bundle in /var/opt/ignite/data/Rel_B.11.00/misc_patch_bundle_cfg:

load_with_any = "golden image"

(This file was created with make_config in Step 8.)

	IMPORTANT: Most software distributed by HP, such as applications on DART CDs, are already bundles and will not need (and should not be) bundled again!