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- From: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: PTFs on installation servers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.164253.10997@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:42:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.123530.39@rcwusr>
- Sender: frank@austin.ibm.com (Frank Feuerbacher)
- Reply-To: frank@austin.ibm.com
- Organization: "Personal Systems Programming, IBM Austin"
- Lines: 24
- Originator: frank@leopard.austin.ibm.com
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- In article <1992Nov18.123530.39@rcwusr>, jenkinsonjp@rcwusr.bp.com writes:
- > i had gotten into the habit of rolling the various and insundry PTF tapes to
- > a common directory on a machine we had setup as an installation server. once
- > done i'd then go the various RS/6000s and install all patches with commit,etc.
- > my theory was that any PTFs that i had loaded previously would be overwritten
- > and the installp would take care of the prerequisite strings. this worked fine
- > until they started to recend PTFs. just recently we got a tape with a BUNCH
- > of fixes for the 220 and GT1 (bloody thing just didn't work). in doing the
- > enmass PTF apply, i ended up with a pile of garbage. reloading the machine and
- > applying the PTFs from tape, one tape at a time, the machine works fine.
- > how do others apply PTFs to a large population of machines??
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- Did you read the memo to users and follow it's instructions? Whatever you do, be sure
- to apply the latest fix to installp first! There was a major change made to enable
- superseding PTFs with PTF U406852. This PTF, or one that supersedes it, MUST be
- applied first! This PTF also has a performance and memory leak fix for installp.
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- I can not think of any other reason why your en-mass installation failed.
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- - Frank Feuerbacher
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- Disclaimer: I speak only for me! And I don't even do a good job of that!
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