Y2k patch oss601a

[Marian Gutica]

Does anybody know how to install oss601a patch from the command line ?
I tried :
custom -A oss601a.SoftMgr101 -p OSS601A -z /tmp/y2k
and different variations and I get :
Fatal Error:
An error occurred during package specification

Error Stack:
Error processing parcels/packages from command line
Invalid package specification
Parcel "OSS601A" not found in software database

Thank you for your time,
marian...@digital-dispatch.com

[Olive]

Hi Marian,

To install from an image ie VOL.000.000. Try

custom -p SCO:SLS -i -z /path/to/media/image

Marian Gutica wrote in message <383C47FA...@digital-dispatch.com>...

[Marian Gutica]

Hi Olive,
Thank you for your reply. The parcel(product) is now recognized but when i ran

custom -p SCO:SLS -i -z /path/to/media/image

I got :
*** Validating selected software

Fatal Error:
The custom+ binary (backend) process has died.

Error Stack:
Message id "INSTALL_ALREADY_NOT_APPLIED_PATCH" not in the current context
Maybe this is because in the letter that accompanies the patch says that first
you have to install oss601a patch for the Software manager first and then the
Year 2000 componenet.
So I tried :
custom -p SCO:SLS -i SCO:SoftMgr -z /tmp/y2k
and I got:
These packages were not found:

SCO:SoftMgr
Maybe somebody can point me to a source where I can find the correct name for
those packages. I did use customquery and I got :
SCO:SoftMgr::oss601a.SoftMgr101
SCO:SoftMgr:SharedControl::oss601a.SoftMgr101
SCO:SoftMgr:ClientControl::oss601a.SoftMgr101
SCO:SoftMgr:CUSTOM::oss601a.SoftMgr101
None of those worked.
Thanks,

[Marian Gutica]

Hi,
For anybody interested I did find the answer to this question:
This only applies to SCO Open Server 5.0.4, you have to run :
custom -p SCO:SoftMgr -i -z /dir/where/patch/resides
custom -p SCO:SLS -i -z /dir/where/patch/resides
in this order.
Thanks

[SACG]

Hi Marian:

Oss601a y2k patch is for both OSR 5.0.2 and OSR5.0.4

For OSR 5.0.4:
First:
/etc/custom -p SCO:SoftMgr -i -z
/directory_where_you_have_VOL.00x.000_files
Then:
/etc/custom -p SCO:SLS -i -z
/directory_where_you_have_VOL.00x.000_files

For OSR 5.0.2:
Only:
/etc/custom -p SCO:SLS -A -z
/directory_where_you_have_VOL.00x.000_files
The Software Manager portion of oss601a is only for OSR5.0.4

There are some ta's about installing patches from command line:
http://www.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?110223
http://www.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?105490

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[swe...@scruznet.com]

Marian Gutica <marian...@digital-dispatch.com> wrote:
> Hi Olive,
> Thank you for your reply. The parcel(product) is now recognized but when i ran

> custom -p SCO:SLS -i -z /path/to/media/image
> I got :
> *** Validating selected software

> Fatal Error:
> The custom+ binary (backend) process has died.

> Error Stack:
> Message id "INSTALL_ALREADY_NOT_APPLIED_PATCH" not in the current context

Since this cryptic message appears often, and since its
not a TA, I'll mention it now. This means that one of the
dependencies of this patch has not been installed, as required.

It your case, it looked like the software manager patch was not installed
prior to the other p[ortion.

-sw