Best Practice for Patch Kits Again

From: Ricardo \(Tru64 User\) (tru64user@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 15:38:11 EST


Hi,

I believe this has been discussed before ...and it is
also on the BEST practice website (though vaguely
explained).

http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/best_practices/BP_PATCH/TITLE.HTM
If you determine that your system contains
Customer-Specific Patches (CPSs) or Early-Release
Patches (ERPs), take one of the following actions:

If you are unsure or know that not all installed CSPs
or ERPs are included in the Release Patch Kit, do not
enable dupatch to overwrite the manually installed
Customer-Specific Patch. If you must install the
official patch being blocked by a Customer-Specific
Patch, contact your service provider for assistance.

If all installed CSPs or ERPs are included in a
Release Patch Kit, you can safely enable dupatch to
overwrite applicable missing or unknown system files.

This seems like an enormous task to figure out if all
previous CSP's are included in the patchkit manually.

I planning on installing patch kit 4 for Tru64 v.40G
on Alpha 4100.

What have most of you been doing, un-installing the
CSPs and installing patchkit, baselining or simple
install with kit without the interfering patches?

_TIA

Richard

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