Using Install Bundles to simultaneously install or upgrade full releases (base, maintenance, rolling patch), and individual patches

Beginning with version 6.1, you can easily install or upgrade your systems directly to a base, maintenance, patch level or a combination of multiple patches and packages together in one step using Install Bundles. With Install Bundles, the installer has the ability to merge so that customers can install or upgrade directly to maintenance or patch levels in one execution. The various scripts, filesets, 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 patch levels.

Releases are divided into the following categories:

Table: Release Levels

Level

Content

Form factor

Applies to

Release types

Download location

Base

Features

filesets

All products

Major, minor, Service Pack (SP), Platform Release (PR)

FileConnect

Maintenance

Fixes, new features

filesets

All products

Maintenance Release (MR), Rolling Patch (RP)

Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

Patch

Fixes

filesets

Single product

P-Patch, Private Patch, Public patch

SORT, Support site

When you install or upgrade using Install Bundles:

You can use the -base_path and -patch_path options to import installation code from multiple releases. You can find filesets and patches from different media paths, and merge fileset 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 filesets 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.

In the example below:

  1. Base + maintenance:

    This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 7.3.1.

    Enter the following command:

    # installmr -base_path <path_to_base>
  2. Base + patch:

    This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 7.3.0.100.

    Enter the following command:

    # installer -patch_path <path_to_patch>
  3. Maintenance + patch:

    This integration method can be used when you upgrade from version 7.3 to 7.3.1.100.

    Enter the following command:

    # installmr -patch_path <path_to_patch> 
  4. Base + maintenance + patch:

    This integration method can be used when you install or upgrade from a lower version to 7.3.1.100.

    Enter the following command:

    # installmr -base_path <path_to_base> 
    -patch_path <path_to_patch>

    Note:

    From the 6.1 or later release, you can add a maximum of five patches using -patch_path <path_to_patch> -patch2_path <path_to_patch> ... -patch5_path <path_to_patch>