How to Resolve a List of Patches

Sometimes a patch depends on another patch, that is, the first patch cannot be applied to the system until the other patch is applied. The first patch is said to have a dependency on the second patch.

If you specify a list of patches to apply, you can resolve the list for patch dependencies. The resulting list might include additional patches that you must apply before applying the patches you specified.

Steps

1. Become an appropriately authorized user or assume a role that includes the Software Installation profile or the solaris.admin.patchmgr.* authorization.

   The System Administrator profile includes the appropriate profiles. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Resolve the list of patches.

   • Resolve a list of patches specified one at a time on the command line.

     # smpatch analyze -i patch-id -i patch-id ...

   • Resolve a list of patches specified in a file.

     # smpatch analyze -x idlist=patch-list-file

Example 55 Resolving a List of Patches

The following example shows how to resolve patch dependencies for patch 112785-28 and write the resulting patch list to a file called /tmp/patch.out. Patch 112785-28 depends on patch 113096-03. After running the smpatch analyze command, the patch.out file contains this ordered list: 113096-03 and 112785-28.

# smpatch analyze -i 112785-28 > /tmp/patch.out

The following example shows how to take a modified list of patches, plist, and resolve the patch dependencies. The list is written to the /tmp/patch.plist file.

# smpatch analyze -x idlist=plist > /tmp/patch.plist