SUMMARY: Removing superseded patches

The recommended way to remove previous patches is to remove old patch
directories.

These have the form /var/sadm/pkg/<pkg-name>/save/<patch-id>.  So in my
case I could remove /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-12.  If I was
sure that I did not want to back out the -14 patch I could also remove
/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-13.  Be careful not to remove the
<pkg-name> directory itself.

Thanks to Chris Buesgens, Oscar del Rio, Crist Clark and Anthony D'Atri.

Dan

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Original message dated: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:17:33 EST
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> Greetings,
> 
> Is there a clean way to remove patches that have been superseded?  I
> have some machines whose /var/sadm is becoming full due to saved patch
> backout data.  I tried "patchrm -f" but it does not remove the patch.
> Here is a typical example:
> 
>     # uname -a
>     SunOS gssut101 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
>  
>     # du -s /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/*
>     67306   /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-12
>     84426   /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-13
>     84385   /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-14
>     21      /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/pspool
>  
>     # patchrm -f 120812-12
>     Validating patches...
>  
>     Loading patches installed on the system...
>  
>     Done!
>  
>     Checking patches that you specified for removal.
>  
>     Done!
>  
>  
>     No patches to remove.
>  
>     # du -s /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/*
>     67306   /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-12
>     84426   /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-13
>     84385   /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/120812-14
>     21      /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWglrt/save/pspool
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Dan Lorenzini
> RBS Greenwich Capital

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