R12.2

[Sri]

Hi,

I came to know from my friends about this forum and it was really good to hear from them.Almost for every post in this forum is being answered by you.Thats really great

I have 1 question regarding syncronization that occurs during prepare phase,For example i have applied one patch in patching cycle and done with cutover.during next prepare phase,will this patch get applied using adop in patch filesystem or just the files modified/introduced by patch will be copied

Thanks,
Anwar

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

Hi Anwar,

Thanks for the feedback.
This is a little internal, but I can answer you.

As you know that, you should not remove any patches  from $PATCH_TOP until after the next patching cycle.
If you delete them, for instance , you will get the following error in prepare phase:

Example of the error:
 Patch 11111111 stage directory does not exist in the patchtop.

That means, those patches are used.
That means, adop silently apply them to the patch fs. (APPL_TOP , not db)

So, in addition to the syncronization, we have this patching activity in prepare phase.