Installing HP-UX 11.0 and Updating HP-UX 10.x to 11.0 HP 9000 Computers Edition 1

Appendix C 265

Ignite-UX System Administration

Section 8: Loading HP-UX Patches Using Ignite-UX

Section 8: Loading HP-UX Patches Using

Ignite-UX

Ignite-UX can use an existing Software Distributor (SD) depot to

distribute additional software. This depot can be managed separately

from Ignite-UX. In this example we’ll create a patch depot containing

HP-UX Patches, create a single patch bundle of the contents of the depot,

and then add this bundle to an existing Ignite-UX conﬁguration. Note

that Ignite-UX currently will only work with SD software conﬁgured in

bundles.

Steps for loading the patches:

NOTE Removing Prior Patch Information

If a 10.x system you intend to update is already patched, do the following:

In order to remove all prior patch information from the IPD on 10.x

systems prior to updating to HP-UX 11.0, do the following:

1. Make a backup copy of the IPD (in /var/adm/sw/products) by

entering the following:

find /var/adm/sw/products | cpio -pdumv /tmp

2. Enter the swmodify command

swmodify -u PH[CKNS][OLES]_\*.\* PH[CKNS][OLES]_\*

3. Remove the patch directory by entering the following:

rm -rf /var/adm/sw/patch

The ﬁrst selection in item 2, “PH[CKNS][OLES]_\*.\*” tells swmodify

to remove all ﬁleset information for the patch products.

The second selection in item 2, “PH[CKNS][OLES]_\*” removes the

product information, once the ﬁleset information is gone.

The swmodify command will not allow you to remove a product from the

IPD if any ﬁlesets exist in the IPD. The backslashes are necessary to

inhibit the shell from expanding the wildcard characters. This allows

swmodify to match all the software selections for patches. You should

not have any real products or ﬁlesets on your system that match this

regular expression.