Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Patches
Packaging Patch Software
Chapter 5182
Packaging Patch Software
This section contains information about packaging patch software.
Packaging involves the unique patch attributes and behaviors described
below.
For complete information on packaging, objects, and attributes, see
Chapter 10, “Creating Software Packages,” on page 301.
Patch Software Characteristics
• Each patch fileset only patches files in one base fileset. If a patch
needs to modify multiple filesets, the patch product contains a fileset
for each base fileset to be modified.
• A patch fileset defines the files to be patched, and the fileset
attribute is_patch must be set to true.
•The ancestor attribute identifies the product or fileset being
patched.
• The first patch of any particular patch supersession chain does not
have a supersedes attribute. A patch that replaces one or more
patches has the appropriate supersedes attribute.
• All patch software objects with the is_patch attribute are
automatically assigned the built-in category of patch, which is then
automatically included in the list of category_tag attributes.
•The category_tag and is_patch attributes at all other levels of
software objects besides fileset are for display and selection purposes
only. (They are not version-distinguishing attributes.)