Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade base releases, maintenance patches, and hot fixes


Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade base releases, maintenance patches, and hot fixes
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Beginning with version 6.1, Symantec offers you a method to easily install or upgrade your systems directly to a base, maintenance, or hot fix level in one step using Install Bundles. With Install Bundles, the installers have the ability to merge so that customers can install or upgrade directly to maintenance or hot fix levels in one execution. The various scripts, RPMs, and patch components are merged, and multiple releases are installed together as if they are one combined release. You do not have to perform two or more install actions to install or upgrade systems to maintenance levels or hot fix levels.

Releases are divided into the following categories:

Table: Release Levels

Level	Content	Form factor	Applies to	Release types	Download location
Base	Features	RPMs	All products	Major, minor, Service Pack (SP), Platform Release (PR)	FileConnect
Maintenance	Fixes, new features	RPMs, patches	All products	Maintenance Release (MR)	Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
Hot fix	Fixes	RPMs	Single product	P-Patch, Public hot fix, Private hot fix	SORT, Support site

When you install or upgrade using Install Bundles:

SFHA products are discovered and assigned as a single version to the maintenance level. Each system can also have one or more hot fixes applied.
Base releases are accessible from FileConnect that requires customer serial numbers. Maintenance and hot fix releases can be automatically downloaded from SORT. You can download them from the SORT website manually or use the deploy_sfha script.
Public hot fix releases can be installed using automated installers from the 6.1 version or later.
Private hot fixes can now be detected to prevent upgrade conflict. Private hot fix releases are not offered as a combined release. They are only available from Symantec Technical Support on a need basis.

You can use the -base_path and -hotfix_path options to import installation code from multiple releases. You can find RPMs and patches from different media paths, and merge RPM and patch definitions for multiple releases. You can use these options to use new task and phase functionality to correctly perform required operations for each release component. You can install the RPMs and patches in defined phases using these options, which helps you when you want to perform a single start or stop process and perform pre and post operations for all level in a single operation.

Four possible methods of integration exist. All commands must be executed from the highest base or maintenance level install script.

For example:

Base + maintenance:

This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 6.1.1.

Enter the following command:
```
# installmr -base_path <path_to_base>
```
Base + hot fix:

This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 6.1.0.100.

Enter the following command:
```
# installer -hotfix_path <path_to_hotfix>
```
Maintenance + hot fix:

This integration method can be used when you upgrade from version 6.1 to 6.1.1.100.

Enter the following command:
```
# installmr -hotfix_path <path_to_hotfix> 
```
Base + maintenance + hot fix:

This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 6.1.1.100.

Enter the following command:
```
# installmr -base_path <path_to_base> 
-hotfix_path <path_to_hotfix>
```
Note:

For the 6.1 release, you can add a maximum of five hot fixes using -hotfix_path <path_to_hotfix> -hotfix2_path <path_to_hotfix> ... -hotfix5_path <path_to_hotfix>

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