Deployment of MAM30 Patch 1 failed in SDM

Question

Hello,
When I try to deploy the sda file XMAM30_3.000301.sda for MAM30 Patch 1 I get this error:
Starting Deployment of XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT
Aborted: development component 'XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT'/'sap.com'/'SAP AG'/'150.20070202191543.0000'/'0':
Caught exception during application deployment from SAP J2EE Engine's deploy service:
java.rmi.RemoteException: Cannot deploy application sap.com/XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT.. Reason: Error while getting container files from EAR E:\usr\sap\CB3\DVEBMGS13\j2ee\cluster\server0\.\temp\deploy\work\deploying\XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT.ear in operation update with application sap.com/XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT.; nested exception is:      com.sap.engine.services.deploy.exceptions.ServerDeploymentException: Error while getting container files from EAR E:\usr\sap\CB3\DVEBMGS13\j2ee\cluster\server0\.\temp\deploy\work\deploying\XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT.ear in operation update with application sap.com/XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT.
(message ID: com.sap.sdm.serverext.servertype.inqmy.extern.EngineApplOnlineDeployerImpl.performAction(DeploymentActionTypes).REMEXC)
Deployment of XAP-MBA-MAM-LPT finished with Error (Duration 3859 ms)
What does this error mean? When I make the sda file myself ( based on the zip file included ) with the mobile archive convertor in NetWeaver Mobile Administrator and then deploy I get no error.
Kind regards,
jeroen

Answer 1

Hello,
What do you mean by:
Finally, you shuold not upload the patch, but the complete version since merepmeta and listdef.xml have change. Otherwise, some fix won't be fixed.
Note 1024148 - How to deploy a patch for xApp Mobile Asset Management 3.0 or 1018248 - SAP xApp Mobile Asset Management SR3 PL01 does not describe things like this. It also says:
You will find that it contains 4 additional zip files. Extract each of these zip files. Each of them in turn contain the following:
[patch name].zip: actual patch file to be deployed to mobile clients with Mobile Infrastructure versions 2.5 SP17 or below.
[patch name].sda: actual patch file to be deployed to mobile clients with Mobile Infrastructure versions 2.5 SP18 and above, or 7.0 SP09 and above.
[patch name]_src.zip: source code with changes from PL0.
SyncBO.zip: syncBO definitions with changes from PL0(to be applied to the middleware)
And :
Uploading to the Mobile Administrator (Administrator) - For MI 7
You must upload MAM*.sda if you are using Mobile Asset Management.
      8. Connect to the SDM server via the Software Deployment Manager GUI.
      9. Choose the .sda files that you want to upload onto the server.
      10. Click on the "Deploy" button.
I don't understand why SAP ships an .sda file if it can't be used... I didn't change anything for the standard XMAM30 SR3 installation so I supposed I could apply this path with the same ease...