Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Patches
Patch Management Tasks and Examples
Chapter 5176
Interactive Patch Management
The swinstall or swcopy GUI lets you perform interactive patch
installation and copying. (See “Installing with the GUI” on page 65 and
“Using the swcopy GUI” on page 138.)
The
Manage Patch Selection... option in the Actions menu opens the
Manage Patch Selection dialog. This dialog lets you:
• Select from a list of patches available to install or copy.
• Select filters for patches.
• Set other patch options.
Figure 5-1 Manage Patch Selection Dialog
The main object list contains a read-only list of available patch
categories. The list contains the name of the category and a short
description. You can use the list as an aid to selecting and filtering
patches. The following options are also available:
•
Include patches with selected (marked) software from the source
Sets the autoselect_patches option. (Default is true.)
•
Automatically select patches for existing software on the target
Sets the patch_match_target option. (Default is false.)