Wednesday, August 26, 2009

How to find conflicting patches with opatch

You can use OPatch from the $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch folder (%ORACLE_HOME%/OPatch for Windows), to find out if installing a certain patch will conflict or not. The steps are as follows:

1. Download the patch which you intend to apply

2. Unzip the patch file

3. Change to the directory where the patch has been downloaded

4. Run the following command:

> opatch query -all

This will simulate the patch application procedure and you will find out if it is going to conflict with any of the existing patches.

You can read on more such OPatch options from the ../OPatch/docs/Users_Guide.txt file.

Note 459556.1

307706.1 (How To Determine Patch Is Superset/Subset Patch)

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