Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Managing Patches
Patch Management Tasks and Examples
Chapter 5180
These rules govern patch removal and rollback:
• Using swremove to remove the base fileset of a patch fileset also
removes all patches to that fileset.
• Files saved for rollback are also removed when the base fileset to
which they apply is updated or removed from the system.
• Removal of a patch automatically rolls back the saved files, unless:
— You set the patch_save_files option to false at the time you
installed the patches.
— You also remove or update the base fileset.
— You performed a swmodify operation on the patch with the
patch_commit option set to true.
• You cannot roll back an installed patch that has been superseded
unless you first roll back the superseding patch.
• SD performs disk space analysis (DSA) on the save area in the same
way it performs DSA on regular file locations.
To save disk space when you are certain a patch operates correctly, you
may wish to commit the patch by removing the rollback files saved by the
patch_save_files option.
To commit a patch, invoke swmodify on the patch with the
-x patch_commit=true option. (The default value is false.)
For example, to commit the patch PHKL_1234 and remove its
corresponding rollback files:
swmodify -x patch_commit=true PHLK_1234
NOTE NOTE: When you commit a patch and remove its rollback files, all
patches that are superseded by this patch are also committed.