HP-UX 11i Version 2 Installation and Update Guide, March 2004

Choosing a Migration Path
Standard HP-UX Bundle Considerations
Chapter 252
NOTE Please note that in the HP-UX 11.0 and 11i v1 releases, diagnostics and
patch bundles are provided on a separate piece of media labeled “Support
Plus” that has its own corresponding documentation. In HP-UX 11i v2,
diagnostics and patch bundles are supplied on the core media and we
include the documentation in this guide.
If you need to patch PA-RISC systems, please refer to the Support Plus
media that came with your PA-RISC system, and the documentation on
the web:
http://docs.hp.com
Bundle Considerations
There may be overlap in the contents of the QPK and HWE bundles, as
each bundle may be used independently and contains all patches needed
to meet dependencies.
A few patches in each bundle will be identical, while each bundle may
contain patches that supersede patches in the other bundle due to the
different objective of each bundle.
Software Distributor (SD-UX) will correctly handle these differences by
selecting the latest patch from a depot that contains both QPK and HWE
bundles when you use the patch_match_target=true option.
For each HP-UX media release, HP verifies the proper selection and
installation of patches using either an individual depot for each patch
bundle or when using a combined depot that contains both patch
bundles.
When installing patch bundles from separate depots, you can install
them in any order.