Updating hpux patces

) if the patch is already there or a later patch is already installed.

I would respectfully disagree with chris_calabrese that patches are independent - Many HP patches depend on other patches being installed (dependencies will automatically be selected for installation), so a patch to resolve an LVM problem may select patches to update C libraries which may cause problems with applications :( PS, if you run into problems with space in /var, you can move /var/spool/sw/patch to another filesystem & replace it with a link to the new location.

This will select all the current patches that are appropriate for your system and installed drivers.

Then when you select install/analysis, it will check which of those patches are already there and give you warnings (and often errors!

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Get the latest tutorials on Sys Admin, Linux/Unix and open source topics via RSS/XML feed or weekly email newsletter.Once an analysis has been performed, you can use SWA to download any recommended patches or patch bundles and create a depot ready for installation.New for HP-UX 11i releases as of January 2007, the SWA tool's bundle name is .That way you can still back patches out if they cause a problem. The initial goal was to find out which was the last "general release" patch bundle that was installed on the machine.I found out that if I do a swlist with no args it gives you an output like this: uotjet1 # swlist # Initializing...

I'd thought about just doing a swinstall -i and then using the "Manage patch selection" option for the machine to choose which patches it's going to install. if I do: swlist -i and then from there have a look through the list, I find the general release patches and they date of those patches.