Configuring fixed patch baseline

Question

Could you please assist. I would like to set up fixed patch baseline, but am having difficulties locating the files to edit (or a command to achieve this)
I understand that the first step is to copy current.zip to current_<date>.zip (for example, but can't locate collections file that some documentation refers to - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/hub_articles/local_patch_server.jsp
This is what I have in /var/sadm/spool/cache on UC Proxy:
Database
entitlement
https%3A%2F%2Fgetupdates1.sun.com%2F%2Fdetectors.jar
https%3A%2F%2Fgetupdates1.sun.com%2F%2Fdetectors.jar.lmd
xml
I am not asking how to use smpatch to modify patchpro.patchset, but where to specify what the available patchsets are.
Any advise would be very much appreciated. Thank you

Answer 1

Thank you for your response. Yes I have done the smpatch analyze and got the current.zip. Actually things have moved on from when I posted this question. This is what I have done:
On the UC Proxy server created the directory structure under /patches:
/patches/Database with a copy of current.zip called baseline240707.zip
and /patches/Misc which contains detectors.jar
(/patches is my cache location and download directory, as it can be seen from below outputs:
server# patchsvr setup -l
Patch source URL: https://getupdates1.sun.com/
Cache location: /patches
Web proxy host name: myproxy
Web proxy port number: 8080
server# smpatch get
patchpro.backout.directory - ""
patchpro.baseline.directory - /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.download.directory /patches /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.install.types - rebootafter:reconfigafter:standard
patchpro.patch.source - https://getupdates1.sun.com/
patchpro.patchset - current
patchpro.proxy.host myproxy ""
patchpro.proxy.passwd **** ****
patchpro.proxy.port 8080 8080
patchpro.proxy.user - ""
On client side:
client# smpatch get
patchpro.backout.directory - ""
patchpro.baseline.directory - /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.download.directory /var/sadm/spool /var/sadm/spool
patchpro.install.types - rebootafter:reconfigafter:standard
patchpro.patch.source file:/patches https://getupdates1.sun.com/
patchpro.patchset baseline240707 current
patchpro.proxy.host - ""
patchpro.proxy.passwd **** ****
patchpro.proxy.port - 8080
patchpro.proxy.user - ""
Note: /patches is shared from the server and mounted on the client as /patches.
With this setup smpatch analyze on the client works ok - I've generated a list of patches, then using this list downloaded patches to the server without any issues.
However, I now have a different problem.
I am trying to run smpatch download on the client (thinking it should find patches in /patches and download them to /var/sadm/spool). I may be misunderstanding something, but I expected this to work. smpatch download fails with -i <patch> or -x idlist=<mylist> - the error message is the same "The following patches were not downloaded" and it lists the patches. I am currently looking into why this failed, but if you can suggest what to try it would be great (or confirm if this should work)
The outputs you requested earlier:
loncmss9651# egrep '11978[8|9]|12033[5|6]|12108[1|2]' /tmp/showrev-p
119788-08
120335-04
121081-06
loncmss9651# egrep '12111[8|9]|12145[3|4]|12156[3|4]|12446[3|6]' /tmp/showrev-p
121118-09
121118-11
121118-12
121453-02
124463-02
loncmss9651# egrep '12223[1|2]|12300[3|4|5|6]|124463|12461[4|5]|1241[71|87]' /tmp/showrev-p
122231-01
123003-02
123003-03
123005-05
124171-03
124188-02
124463-02
124614-01
Many thanks again