v5.1b: Trouble with patch t64v51bb1-c0006700-17362-es-20030313.tar

["A. Mahendra Rajah" <Mahendra.Rajah@xxxxxxxxxx>]

   I had an amusing experience with the installtion of this
   patch and I thought that I would share it with you all.

   After upgrading my ES40 and DS20 AlphaServers from Tru64
   v5.1a to v5.1b over this past weekend, I installed Patch
   kit #1 and then attemped to install Patch kit 17362 which
   was t64v51bb1-c0006700-17362-es-20030313.tar. The
   attempts were amusing. 

   The exact same thing happened on both systems:

   1)   cd to where the patch file was extracted to.

   2)   ./dupatch

   3)   Asks for top level directory of patch distribution.
        Answer with '.' .

   4)   Churns a few CPU cycles and then comes back with the
        complaint that 

                directory /var/tmp/patch### exists

        where ### is some arbitrary number.

   5)   Having seen this before in v5.1a, I did this:

        mv /usr/sbin/dupatch /usr/sbin/dupatch.bad

   6)   ./dupatch

   7)   Asks the same question in #3 again, and then
        complains that a dupatch utility is required
        to complete the patch install. FAIR !!!

   8)   mv /usr/sbin/dupatch.bad /usr/sbin/dupatch 

   9)   ./dupatch

   PROCEEDS without any complaints !!!!

   Strange, huh? 


   -- mahendra
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   A. Mahendra Rajah             Email: Mahendra.Rajah@URegina.CA
   Tru64 UNIX Systems Manager    Phone:            (306) 585-4496
   Dept. of Computing Services   FAX:              (306) 337-2324
   University of Regina,
   Regina, Sask., S4S 0A2
   Canada.       
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