Committing patches

[Angela Swyers_1]

Does anyone have the command line that is needed to commit multiple patches at once? I don't want to have to use the swmodify command for patch.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

I use the command "cleanup" to commmit the patches.

cleanup -c 3 will commit patches that have been superceded thrice.

-Sri

[Angela Swyers_1]

But will this cleanup the space in /var?

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Yep. It will remove the old patches that are no longer needed due to the commit process from /var/adm/sw/save directory.

It is a good practice to backup this directory before you clean them up.

-Sri

[Steven E. Protter]

The only downside when you get that space back on /var is that if for some reason you need to remove a patch the patch it superseded is not there.

This could lead to some issues you would not associate with removing a patch.

So if you need to remove a patch after running cleanup you may want to find the successor patch or the one that supersedes the one you are removing and get it right into the system.

SEP

[Geoff Wild]

cleanup -c is your answer - however - if you have the disk space available - just grow /var or put /var/adm/sw/save in it's own filesystem.

I tend to commit patches myself with cleanup -c 2 as where I work we use a conservative patching schedule - patches we apply have been out for 6 months (unless security related) before we install them.

Rgds...Geoff