depot files

[agape234]

I have downloaded some patches and application updates from HP. When trying to get these installed I am getting no-where fast.
Any quick tips on getting thes updates run? Are YOU Sancho?....No you are not. Is Scott Baio Sancho?....NO, he is not!....Only.."I"....am Sancho!

 

[bi]

I have always had trouble trying to get HP patches that I've downloaded installed. Since I only do it quarterly, I created a note on how I did it one time. But then the next quarter, the procedure might not work or the naming convention they use may have changed.

Sometimes there are installation instructions from the download site, but sometimes they aren't very clear and sometimes may even be wrong. So you are not alone in getting nowhere fast.

Here are my notes from one of those times. You can try this if you want to patch everything you have.

Download the .tar file to a directory on the system. There is no need to untar the file!!!

For example: download to a directory named download. Then type this command:

swinstall -s /download/QPK1100,r=B.11.00.56.5,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32_64,v=HP.tar

 

[agape234]

OK that is more than I have been able to find so far.....however, after downloading a few files from HP, I found that they all end with .depot......What are these, and will the swinstall cmd run these? Are YOU Sancho?....No you are not. Is Scott Baio Sancho?....NO, he is not!....Only.."I"....am Sancho!

 

[Frog]

the files you are downloading are in depot format. swinstall will run these files. To make it easier to install the patches if you have a lot of them use should create a directory and do a swcopy of each patch to the directory. (do a man on swcopy to get the right syntax )
afterward you can just do swinstall -s /xxxx/ where xxxx is the directory name.

 

[crimso]

.depot files are tarfiles in disguise. you can use swcopy to 'bundle' them all together or issue multiple commands such as: swinstall -s/dir/filename.depot "*"