Cleaning up patch-bundles

[Maarten van Maanen]

Let me try again...
On our test D370 with HP-UX I've installed a patch-bundle. When I list the patches installed I see a low of patches which I don't really seem to need on our larger K370 system running Oracle 8.0.5. My questions are as follows:
a) Is there a way to remove al non-necessary patches from your system and
b) Would this be convenient to do or is it more wise to just leave all patches as installed

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

I'd do two things if you want to reclaim space:

1) 'swremove' products you don't need.
2) run 'cleanup' to regain /var space.

See the man pages.

...JRF...

[Rita C Workman]

I heartily agree with James on both counts.
But if you are going to remove any patches, you will need to do your homework on them. Make sure they are not involved in a dependency with another patch. My feeling as always been...if the patch has been on the system awhile and no problems-then I leave it there. Also, I only run cleanup after I've let patches sit for awhile to make sure everything looks good, because depending on the cleanup options you take...you may not be able to remove a patch later. So, by all means run a cleanup to regain space...but select the options to fit your needs.

...and it's great to finally be able to respond to one of your posts !

[Patrick Wallek]

One thing to keep in mind when installing patches is that you do not necessarily need to install the whole bundle. You want to make sure you do a "Match what target has" in swinstall. This will only install the patches that are needed on your system.

[Darrel Louis]

Maarten,

If you have hp-ux 11.X, read the following document:
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B3782-90829.pdf

- When running cleanup -f under hp-ux 10.20, it will cleanup the patch directory(/var/adm/sw/patch). So before running it make a tar backup of this directory.
- Swremove will remove the patch from your system, this will remove the binary and/or Library files etc.

So what do you really want?

Veel geluk

Darrel

[Berlene Herren]

Try using the patch, PHCO_22044, for clean up.

s700_800 11.00 HP-UX Patch Tools and White Paper

Berlene