Applying 171017 BP (26392124) over 170814 (26609769) returning "out of order" error.

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Today I was trying to apply the Oracle Exadata Database 171017 BP (26392124) on top of 170814 (26609769) and I was getting the error below:

[oracle@localhost 26392124]$ opatch apply
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.15
Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory
   from           : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 11.2.0.3.15
OUI version       : 11.2.0.4.0
Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2017-10-19_12-58-26PM_1.log

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...
UtilSession failed: Your Oracle Home has a constituent installed without having its prereqalso installed. This is an error condition and we exit. The installed patch that is out of order is: 26609769
Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2017-10-19_12-58-26PM_1.log

OPatch failed with error code 73

Error keyword was: The installed patch that is out of order is: 26609769

Note that even though I'm moving to a higher BP version, the patch ID for the previous version was causing the OPatch utility to think I was moving to a lower version...

To solve this, I just upgrade my OPatch from 11.2.0.3.15 to the latest 11.2.0.3.17 version and run it again:

[oracle@localhost 26392124]$ opatch apply
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.17
Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.


Oracle Home       : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory
   from           : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 11.2.0.3.17
OUI version       : 11.2.0.4.0
Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2017-10-19_13-09-29PM_1.log

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...
OPatch continues with these patches:   26392124  

Do you want to proceed? [y|n]

Now with the fixed version of OPatch, the patch was successfully applied.

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