patches stuck in a "transient" state

[Erik Voelker_3]

I posted "swinstall problems and swlist" yesterday concerning a swinstall
session that hung and had to be killed (thanks for the responses). I was able
to swconfig most of them, but there are a couple in the "transient" state that
cannot be reinstalled. In the previous discussion topic, Dan had mentioned NOT
to use swremove for any of the unistalled patches... if this is the case, then
how can I remove/fix the patches in question?

Thanks,
Erik Voelker

[Alan Riggs_1]

I have never had a problem with swremove, but I am also rigorous at maintaing
backout capability and never pruning the /var/adm/sw tree without
triple-checking. I am curious about the failed reinstall, though. If you set
all reinstall options to true the transent state really should not interfere
(though I have never needed to test this personally).