How To Allow ADOP To Continue As If It Were Successful After Hitting An Error While Applying Patch(es)
Applying multiple patches in a given adop cycle, where by one of the patches fails to compile a form. Instead of having adop error out, and having to redo all of the patches, just have adop log the message and continue on with the patch application.
Typical message that a user sees when adop fails during a patching cycle.
Continue as if it were successful :
***
AutoPatch could not find a response to the above prompt
or found an incorrect response in the defaults file.
You must run AutoPatch in an interactive session and provide a correct value.
Solution :
Currently the only way to "Continue as if a patch were successful" is by making use of the following parameter "flags=autoskip" in conjunction with the "abandon=no" parameter at the command-line.
For example:
adop phase=apply patches=17020683 abandon=no restart=yes flags=autoskip
We can skip patches when there are multiple patches in a cycle and it can be achieved by the following cases:
Typical message that a user sees when adop fails during a patching cycle.
Continue as if it were successful :
***
AutoPatch could not find a response to the above prompt
or found an incorrect response in the defaults file.
You must run AutoPatch in an interactive session and provide a correct value.
Solution :
Currently the only way to "Continue as if a patch were successful" is by making use of the following parameter "flags=autoskip" in conjunction with the "abandon=no" parameter at the command-line.
For example:
adop phase=apply patches=17020683 abandon=no restart=yes flags=autoskip