HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

Installation
SD-UX Changes to Patch Installation
Chapter 6132
Category Tag Information
With 11i, SD category tags are used to identify types of patches. These
category tags can be used to select various patches for installation.
Some of the category tags are:
general_release
critical
hardware_enablement
defect_repair
corruption
enhancement
memory_leak
panic
halts_system
By specifying the category (c) tag in the SD version specification, you can
select all patches that contain that specific category tag. For example,
using the SD command line interface, if you wanted to select all patches
in the depot that correspond to currently installed software and that
contain the category tag “critical,” you would enter:
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true \
-x patch_filter=”*.*,c=critical” -s d
epot_name
By using the pipe (|) function, you can combine category tags. For
example, to install patches that are either critical OR
hardware_enablement:
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true \
-x patch_filter=”*.*,c=critical|hardware_enablement” \
-s
depot_name
To preview the patches that are selected for a particular swinstall
session, the -p (preview) option can be used. The -p option will cause
SD to analyze the installation, then exit (that is, the actual installation
will not be performed). Look in the /var/adm/sw/swinstall.log file to
determine which patches were selected.
To use category tags with the SD Graphical User Interface: under the
Options menu, select Manage Patch Selection. Then select the box
labeled “Automatically select patches for software installed on the
target.” In the “Filter...” text field, add the desired filters to the *.* . For
example, to select only the critical patches, the Filter... field would
appear as *.*,c=critical. Likewise, to install all the patches that are
critical OR hardware_enablement, the Filter...field should appear as
*.*,c=critical|hardware_enablement. Select OK.