Re: Patch sanity check

Janine, if i'm reading this right, 11.2 and forward patches will be full 
installs(eventually forced into a new oracle home).

Someone feel free to correct me.

joe

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From:
Janine Ohmer <janine@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:
oracle-l L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
02/17/2011 12:42 PM
Subject:
Patch sanity check
Sent by:
oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



Ah, the wonderful world of MOS!  No wonder you all have been singing its 
praises! :)  Fortunately I remembered to look under RDBMS, even though 
there is also an entry in the product list for Database.  That one bit me 
many years ago and I have never forgotten it.  Not all of the gotchas are 
new...

I currently have 11.2.0.1.0 installed (Linux x86_64).  This is still the 
version available through OTN, but there is a note there that 11.2.0.2 is 
available as a patch.  However, searching for patches for 11.2.0.1 doesn't 
produce anything (unless I am missing it, since there is a very long 
list).

Searching for patches for 11.2.0.2, however, leads me to patch 10248523, 
which says it is the 11.2.0.2.1 Patch Set Update, and that 11.2.0.1.0 must 
be installed to use it.

Is this the one I want?  And is it just me, or is this a little backwards? 
 I'm used to searching for the version I already have, to see if there are 
any updates for it, rather than searching for the version I want to update 
to.  This way seems to require a certain amount of clairvoyance...  Is it 
always like this?

thanks,

janine

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