SUMMARY: Patch removal without backup

From: Joe Hatchel (joe_hatchel@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 13:48:22 EDT


Thanks to Dr. Tom Blinn and Vincent Kiely for their
responses. First my apologies for the inaccuracy of
my description of the problem. Instead of "backup" I
should have said the patches were installed
irreversibly, ie I could not back them out.

What I did was to place the .gz file, from another
system, corresponding the the patch I wished to
uninstall into /usr/adm/patch/backup. Into single
user mode, and deleted the patch without incident and
rebooted. Loaded the C2 subsets from the distribution
then back into single user mode to install the removed
patch plus another required patch. I may have gotten
lucky in that there was only one file in the tar ball
to be replaced.

Neither dupatch or setld complained of errors and both
the subsets and patches are listed as installed.

I ran secsetup without incident, so I think I dodged a
bullet.

My original question follows.

Thanks
Joe

> I have a 4.0G pk3 box to which I have to install C2
> security. During this process I have to uninstall
> one
> of the patches from the Patch Kit. The problem,
> they
> were installed without a backup. Any ideas on how
> this might be done?
>
> My first pass reaction is to take a small box,
> install
> 4.0G then the patch with a backup. But can I just
> "move" this info to the target box and have dupatch
> recognize it and delete the patch? Procedures?
>

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Joe Hatchel
Database Administrator
PPD Development
Richmond, VA

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