Patch Installation Might Require Obsolete Bundles to be Included in the Patch Depot
Details
If you do not install patches in chronological order, the installation might fail if ESX Server 3.5 Update 1 patches are already installed on the system. An error message similar to the following will be displayed:
ERROR: [ESX350-2008023XX-XX] requires ['ESX350-200802403-BG'] but these bundles cannot be found. Please make sure they are in the depot and specified in the bundle list.
Note: This issue will not occur if patches are installed in chronological order. This issue will not occur if Update Manager is used for ESX Server host patch remediation.