[pca] Method to stop applying patches when a patch fails to apply?

[Martin Paul]

Cashion, David (DXZ) wrote:
> For instance, sometimes a kernel patch will fail to fully apply for various
> reasons.  Since it shows up as being installed, the other patches that depend
> on that kernel patch will successfully install. 

Hm, that's weird, I've never seen that. I always thought that this is taken care 
of by patchadd - when it noticed that a patch wasn't installed completely, it 
backs out all changes it made. When patchadd isn't atomic, things will become 
unpredictable.

> I'm not sure how the CPU patchset determines if a kernel patch was
> successfully applied, but the patchset script will notice the incomplete
> kernel patch installation and try to reapply it.

I couldn't find anything in the patchset install script on a quick glance (it's 
a loooong script). But I really think that it should be patchadd which should 
take care of that, not some other script.

Without knowing the exact conditions of such a partly-failed patch install, it 
will be impossible to add a workaround to PCA, I'm afraid. If you have more 
details, feel free to post them here and/or report it to Oracle.

Martin.

> Thanks much, David Cashion
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