Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Patches
Patch Management Tasks and Examples
Chapter 5 173
Patch Filtering with Multiple Criteria
You can repeat a version qualifier (for AND criteria) and use the pipe
symbol (|) within qualifiers (for OR criteria). This is consistent with the
current level of expression support in POSIX standard software
specifications.
To install any patches that have the category tag of critical AND the
category tag of either special_release OR hardware_enablement.
swinstall -s sw_server -x patch_match_target=true \
-x patch_filter=”*.*,c=critical,\
c=special_release|hardware_enablement”
NOTE Selecting software with the \* wildcard overrides patch filtering.
Explicitly Specifying Patches
You can explicitly specify and install a patch (without autoselection or
matching the target) by specifying one or more operands for the
software_specification within a command.
Explicit patch selections override any automatic patch selections. When
SD automatically selects a patch (for example, with a value of true for
the auto_select_patches option), it attempts to select the latest patch
in the supersession chain unless some other patch in the chain is
explicitly selected.
To explicitly install a patch:
swinstall PHCO_1234
NOTE Patch filtering does not apply to explicitly selected patches.