Thanx for the responces (included below).
ORIGINAL:
Fellow Managers,
Could someone point me in the right direction. I want to manualy remove
a patch, so that it doesn't show up in a "showrev -p". I cant use
backoutpatch, because it cant find the original files.
thanx,
jb
SUMMARY:
I found the best way was to intall the patch again, then do a
backoutpatch.
I found the original patch on the install CD since I couldn't get the
right
version from sunsolve.
1. tar xvf <patch.tar>
2. cd <patch>
3. ./installpatch -u .
4. cd /var/sadm/patch/<patch>
5. ./backoutpatch <patch>
I also found another solution at the Sun Mangages Archives.
http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html
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From:
robin.landis@imail.exim.gov
To:
John Bradley <john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil>
If you applied the patch, saving "pre-patch data" it would default
to
/var/sadm/patch/XXX/log where XXX is the patch-id (ie. 103550-09).
This contains the backoutpatch file. Hope I'm not telling you
something you already know. .....Robin
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From:
Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services
<Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au>
To:
john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil
The brute force method is rm -r /var/sadm/patch/<patch-id>. I use that
whenever I supercede a patch.
regards,
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From:
baldma@aur.alcatel.com (Mark A. Baldwin)
To:
john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil
John,
1: Edit out all references to the undesired patch from the
pkginfo files in the /var/adm/pkg/* directories. Locate
these references by:
cd /var/adm/pkg
grep <patch-id> */pkginfo
2: Remove the directory /var/sadm/patch/<patch-id>.
Good luck, Mark...
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From:
Seth Rothenberg <SROTHENB@montefiore.org>
To:
john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil
John,
We had to do this when showrev -p was reporting
a patch that was not really installed.
We did cd /var/sadm/
mkdir nonpatch
mv patch/102146-07 nonpatch/102146-07
Note, you probably should install a patch
at this point, because the system really
will be confused....
Seth
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