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Patch Downloader utility for Oracle Enterprise Linux

The Patch Downloader utility for Oracle Enterprise Linux provided by BMC uses a configuration file to download metadata and payload from the Oracle website.

Creation of a patch catalog requires that the following packages are pre-installed on the server that hosts the patch repository:

Package

Tested version

createrepo

0.4.6

python-urlgrabber

2.9.6

Note

The versions above were used for testing and validation. Later versions of these packages are known to work but have not been officially qualified with the product.

The downloader is either oel_downloader.bat (for running on Microsoft Windows) or oel_downloader.sh (for running on UNIX). To install, extract the file and place it in a directory on the server.

Note

  • If the Patching Linux Helper is Oracle Linux 6, use createrepo version 0.9.8 or later.
  • You can find the createrepo version 0.9.8 for Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 in the Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 Update 3 media or online in the Oracle website.

  • The Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 Update 4 and later updates ship with createrepo version 0.9.9. If you use this version, the Patch analysis job would fail with this error:

    STDERR: ERROR :: YUM dry run failedERROR :: no such table: packages

    See this page for more information.

  • The python-urlgrabber package version 3.9.1 is shipped with Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 update 4.

 

The following topics explain how to build the configuration files and how to use the downloader utility for Oracle Enterprise Linux:

 

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