Posted on Monday, 25th January 2010 by Balazs
Summary
Patching AIX can be intimidating at first for someone coming from the Windows / Linux world. AIX has capabilities that natively support production quality operations. One of these qualities is that one can install patches on an alternative volume, make that volume bootable for testing and allowing an easy way out if something [...]
Tags: AIX 6.1, IBM, Patch, smit, smitty, SUMA
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Posted on Tuesday, 5th May 2009 by Balazs
Often programmers that haven’t worked with patches before find it intimidating. Patches are actually very simple to deal with. Here is how.
Creating Patches
diff -u oldfile newfile > filename.patch
or
diff -urN /olddir /newdir > filename.patch
or
diff -urN -X excludes /olddir /newdir > filename.patch
diff options:
-u Output (default 2) lines of unified context.
-r [...]
Tags: Patch, Progremming
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