topic Re: patch remove in Operating System - HP-UX

patch remove

Asad Malik — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:46:46 GMT

Hi
I have installed the following
QPK1100 B.11.00.54.7 Quality Pack for HP-UX 11.00, September 2001
and now want to remove. When using sam it hangs when i mark for remove.
Secondly if a support bundle is removed will the older one takes over with out any manual changes.

Re: patch remove

Helen French — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:08:47 GMT

Hi Azad,

This may help you:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=c2cda13c0bb8c7c340/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000016120190

HTH,
Shiju

Re: patch remove

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:24:54 GMT

Hi:

I would have to first ask why whould you install an entire Support bundle and then want to remove the whole thing? If you have one, or two patches that you want to remove, then use 'swremove PHXX_nnnn". Beware that if the patch required a reboot to install, a reboot will need to be forced upon deinstallation. Almost all 'PHKL_' and a good many 'PHNE_' patches require a reboot.

If you have discovered a problem with a particular patch, checking for a more current, superseding one is sometimes as good (or better) "fix" than removing a recent one.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: patch remove

Asad Malik — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:49:09 GMT

I have installed qpk1100 form sept 2001 support cd using option "match what target has"
Now I am hearing from applicarion people that there are some isues with functionality of application. They may ask to remove this qpk1100 and go back to March 2001 patch bundle which we have before.
What should i do in this case and how i shall know that there problem is because of a particular patch or patches.

Re: patch remove

James George_1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:57:48 GMT

Hi

I don't know why you want to remove the patch. I would suuggest to use the cleanup command
which will supersede the patch. It is always safer to use the cleanup command with different run level (eg : cleanup -c3 or c4 ..)

Be very carefull if you remove any patches manually. B'cas some of the Kernel Pacthes could create real problem in future...refer man page for cleanup.