patch on a hot tin roof

This blogpost is about oracle’s patching tool for the database and grid infrastructure: opatch. I personally have a love/hate relationship with opatch. In essence, opatch automates a lot of things that would be very error prone if it were to be done by hand, which is a good thing. However, there are a lot of things surrounding opatch that I despise. An example of that is the version numbering of opatch itself.

Versions and more versions

To jump into the matter directly: versions. I don’t understand why this has to be this complicated. I would even go as far as saying that somebody needs to step in and clean this up.