Re: one-off patch

From: Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid>
Date: 06 Mar 2007 10:23:40 GMT
Message-ID: <1173176618.984331@proxy.dienste.wien.at>

Jeff B <jbisch1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Can someone tell me what it means when a patch is referred to as a
> "one-off patch"? Basically, what is a one-off patch?

It is a patch that (in Oracle 10) is usually applied with 'opatch' and addresses a single bug.

Whenever you install a new release, all one-off patches are overwritten and gone.

Not all one-off patches are mutually compatible; opatch tries to keep track of that.

Basically you install a one-off patch if and only if you hit the bug.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe Received on Tue Mar 06 2007 - 04:23:40 CST