swremove

[Nobody's Hero]

I need to remove a patch tonight. What should I use with the swremove command? What flags?

Thanks,
BOb

[Darrell Allen · Accepted solution]

Hi Bob,

You shouldn't need any flags. Just swremove PHXX_#####

Darrell

[Michael Tully]

Hi Robert,

A lot of SA's use the command line
when installing or removing patches.
I always use the interactive part
of swinstall/swremove. It gives me
total control of what is going on.

One other piece of advice, make sure
that you have a backup/ignite tape
cut prior to any patch changes,
whether they are bootable or not.

HTH
-Michael

[harry d brown jr]

Robert,

Why not just use it in interactive mode, by just typing in swremove?

live free or die
harry

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

I use interactive mode to always swremove.
Non-interactive command line is also easy and gives us a warning before rebooting the system if a reboot is required.

This would be the command

swremove -x mount_all_filesystems=false PH???

-Sri

[Nobody's Hero]

Thanks, Just wanted to be sure.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Ooops.. this is the reason why one shouldn't work during the weekends..

interactive session gives us a warning before reboot if required.

Sri

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Robert:

You don't say what patch, and that in and of itself raises lots of questions.

If you can replace the patch with a later one, which fixes your current "problem" that would be a better option. If the patch has been commited, you are stuck. Patch dependencies are also an issue, particularly in 10.x and 11.0.

You can read more about using 'swremove' for patches in the Patch management white paper:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/5967-3578.pdf

See, particulary, page-64.

If you wish to proceed, I'd use the '-p' preview option first to better ascertain the actions that will follow:

# swremove -p -v PHCO_XXXX

Regards!

...JRF...