Download area: Whats the Patch philosophy

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peka
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Download area: Whats the Patch philosophy

Post by peka »

Hello,

I'm wondering about the patch philosophy. I downloaded about 3 weeks ago the WinCC OA 3.11-SP1 patches P014 (324MB) and P016 (808k).
Checking now for patch updates, now only P019 (and P019.1, P019.2) is available, and its size is 237MB?

Where are the patches publiced before, because of package size i can't imagin that P019 includes P014. Readme-files and Annoucements don't give further informations.

br petr

leoknipp
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Re: Download area: Whats the Patch philosophy

Post by leoknipp »

Hello,

ETM provides a summary patch (if necessary) every month. This summary patch includes all previous patches. When the newest summary patch is released all former summary patches and hotfix-patches are removed from the download area.
P016 was a hotfix-patch only including the executable for the data-manager, therefore the size was only a few kB.

The different size between P014 (in msp-format) and P019 (as zip-files) may be a result of the different filetype. And also P019 was splitted in three different patches.
For details please have a look at the announcements which are posted when a patch is released:
https://portal.etm.at/index.php?option= ... &Itemid=80

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

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