Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems

related patches that you want to place in a depot with other patches. This is advantageous for
the following reasons:
• When you list the contents of the depot, you see the bundle rather than the individual
patches.
• If you choose to install only this group of patches, you simply select the bundle for
installation.
• After installing a bundle, when you use the swlist command to list the patches on a system
you will see the bundle rather than the individual patches contained in the bundle.
Suppose you have a group of 10 patches related to software application XYZ in the first quarter
of 2005. You can create a bundle of these patches and name it 2005_Q1_APP_XYZ. You can then
place this bundle in your periodic patch depot. When you use the swlist command to list the
contents of the depot, the bundle name shows up instead of the 10 individual patches. This can
be very helpful when the swlist command returns a large list, because your bundle is more
visible than the individual patches.
Examples of listing patches and bundles
The following two examples show swlist command output after the group of 10 related patches
described previously were added to a depot and installed on a system. Note that it is time
consuming and tedious to determine if all 10 patches are listed because they are interspersed
among all the other patches in the output.
For example:
#
# Bundle(s):
#
SOME_BUNDLE_001 rev bundle description
SOME_BUNDLE_002 rev bundle description
#
# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:
#
SOME_PATCH_001 rev patch description
INDIVIDUAL_XYZ_PATCH_001 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_002 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_003 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_004 rev patch description
INDIVIDUAL_XYZ_PATCH_002 rev patch description
...
SOME_PATCH_067 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_068 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_069 rev patch description
INDIVIDUAL_XYZ_PATCH_010 rev patch description
...
SOME_PATCH_134 rev patch description
INDIVIDUAL_XYZ_PATCH_015 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_135 rev patch description
SOME_PATCH_136 rev patch description
...
If you bundle the patches into a bundle called 2005_Q1_APP_XYZ_BUNDLE, it is much easier
to determine if the patches are included in the swlist output.
#
# Bundle(s):
#
SOME_BUNDLE_001 rev bundle description
SOME_BUNDLE_002 rev bundle description
2005_Q1_APP_X_BUNDLE rev bundle description
#
# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:
Custom patch bundles 81