install patches manually

[happytoday]

I tried to use patchadd with patches : 121431-30 , 121429-11 patches
but with failure . Please help me the syntax with installing directory
patches ?

bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS inhome 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-3.00#

[Ian Collins]

Post by happytoday
I tried to use patchadd with patches : 121431-30 , 121429-11 patches
but with failure . Please help me the syntax with installing directory
patches ?

What did you try?

Your trolls are loosing their novelty.

[Tim Bradshaw]

I tried to use patchadd  with patches :  121431-30 , 121429-11 patches
but with failure . Please help me the syntax with installing directory
patches ?

Be in the parent directory of the patch (so there will be directories
called 121431-30 &c), and then:

# patchadd 121431-30

[Nomen Publicus]

Post by Tim Bradshaw

I tried to use patchadd �with patches : �121431-30 , 121429-11 patches
but with failure . Please help me the syntax with installing directory
patches ?

Be in the parent directory of the patch (so there will be directories
# patchadd 121431-30

If the patches have been downloaded as "jar" files they must first be
expanded using unzip. ie A patch called 121431-30.jar is expanded by
the command

# unzip -q 121431-30.jar

This leaves the 121431-30 directory which can then be applied with the
patchadd command.

All patching operations must be done by the root user.

[Chris Ridd]

On 2008-12-01 08:10:14 +0000, Nomen Publicus

Post by Nomen Publicus

Post by Tim Bradshaw

I tried to use patchadd  with patches :  121431-30 , 121429-11 patches
but with failure . Please help me the syntax with installing directory
patches ?

Be in the parent directory of the patch (so there will be directories
# patchadd 121431-30

If the patches have been downloaded as "jar" files they must first be
expanded using unzip. ie A patch called 121431-30.jar is expanded by
the command
# unzip -q 121431-30.jar
This leaves the 121431-30 directory which can then be applied with the
patchadd command.

I don't know if the jar program does things differently to unzip, but
I've tended to do a chmod -fR +x on the extracted directory to make
sure that any executable scripts run by the patch are really executable.

Post by Nomen Publicus
All patching operations must be done by the root user.

[Dave Uhring]

Post by Chris Ridd
I don't know if the jar program does things differently to unzip, but
I've tended to do a chmod -fR +x on the extracted directory to make
sure that any executable scripts run by the patch are really executable.

Post by Nomen Publicus
All patching operations must be done by the root user.

However, it may still be necessary for the user nobody to have read access
to all of the patch's subdirectories.

[John Oliver]

Post by happytoday
I tried to use patchadd with patches : 121431-30 , 121429-11 patches
but with failure . Please help me the syntax with installing directory
patches ?
bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS inhome 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-3.00#

Use PCA to patch... much easier.
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/