Remote-mode smpatch add Command Cannot Apply a Patch That Supports More Than One Architecture (5060647)

Description:

Some patches can be applied to systems that have different architectures. For such patches, the architecture designation lists each architecture that the patch supports.

You cannot use the remote-mode smpatch add command to apply this kind of a patch to a system.

$ smpatch add -u root -i 116126-03 Authenticating as user: root Type /? for help, pressing <enter> accepts the default denoted by [ ] Please enter a string value for: password :: Loading Tool: com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from mars Login to mars as user root was successful. Download of com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from mars was successful. Target host architecture is i386. Patch 116126-03 is for sparc i386 architecture. No patches were installed with this command.

Workaround:

Use the local-mode smpatch add command to apply the patch to the system.

# smpatch add -i 116126-03 add patch 116126-03 Patch number 116126-03 has been successfully installed.