RE: Merge patches

From: MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:04:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CA1E4.20030811110423@fatcity.com>

You should not have to worry unless each of the patches contains the same object file. In that case the second patch will overwrite that part of the first. But, check the patch note before requesting the patch merge. It may have words to the effect that the second patch contains all the changes belonging to the first.

Of course, only apply necessary patches.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu

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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:59 AM
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OK, maybe I'm going crazy or senile, but I seem to recall Oracle stating that if you needed to apply more than 1 patch, you would need to request a merge patch. I think this was about a year ago and caused us to downgrade a database to resolve a problem since the turn-around time for the merge patch was not going to beet our requirements.

Does anyone else remember this? Are they still doing this or can multiple 1-off patches be applied now?

Stephen

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