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:
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SOME_BUNDLE_001 | rev | bundle | description |
SOME_BUNDLE_002 | rev | bundle | description |
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#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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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| SOME_BUNDLE_002 | rev | bundle | description |
| 2005_Q1_APP_X_BUNDLE | rev | bundle | description |
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