5 What are standard HP-UX patch bundles?
Patches can be grouped into collections known as patch bundles, or simply bundles. HP provides a number of prepackaged, standard HP-UX patch bundles that you can install as a unit. This chapter shows you how to obtain standard HP-UX patch bundles. Table 5-1: “Standard HP-UX patch bundle names” (page 52) shows the QPK and other standard patch bundles. HP tests these bundles rigorously to ensure a high level of reliability and updates many of them periodically. Using standard patch bundles can be a less risky and more efficient way to patch a system than installing patches individually.
HP recommends that you use standard HP-UX patch bundles for proactive patching, regardless of whether you have a support contract.
NOTE: For HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) releases, HP delivers standard HP-UX patch bundles and diagnostic tools on Support Plus media and the ITRC.
For the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) releases, HP delivers standard HP-UX patch bundles on Support Pack media and the ITRC.
For HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) releases, HP delivers standard HP-UX patch bundles on OE media and the ITRC.
See Table 5-2: “Standard HP-UX patch bundle use and release dates” (page 53) for more information.
Key features
Standard HP-UX patch bundles can be a very useful part of a proactive patch management strategy for the following reasons:
•The bundles save you time during patching and reduce the risk of errors.
•HP tests all patches in the bundle as a group.
•The bundles provide an easy way to standardize the level of patches on systems.
•The bundles provide a solution commonly used by other customers.
•HP performs all dependency analysis to ensure standard HP-UX patch bundles contain all patches necessary to meet dependencies.
•Unlike installing multiple patches individually, which might require a reboot for each patch, installation of a bundle never requires more than one system reboot.
•You can use bundles to create standard patch depots for easy deployment to multiple systems.
•The bundles provide a convenient way to track patches on a system.
•ITRC provides support for standard HP-UX patch bundles.
Standard HP-UX patch bundles
Table 5-1 (page 52) shows the individual bundle names for the HP-UX 11i releases.
Table 5-1 Standard HP-UX patch bundle names
Patch Bundle Name | HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) | HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) | HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) |
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Feature Enablement | N/A | FEATURE11i | FEATURE11i |
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Hardware Enablement | HWEnable11i | HWEnable11i | HWEnable11i |
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Quality Pack | GOLDAPPS11i | QPKAPPS | QPKAPPS |
| GOLDBASE11i | QPKBASE | QPKBASE |
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Required | BUNDLE11i | BUNDLE11i | N/A |
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