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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris patches Post 302450250 by Sun Fire on Thursday 2nd of September 2010 04:36:14 AM
Old 09-02-2010
there's a roll back option with the patchadd command.


but as a rule of thumb, before you install any patch, you must break the root mirror in case anything happen.


Quote:
Originally Posted by amity
Hi All

If suppose I am installing the normal patch or kernal patch and during that time hardware failure occur . Please let me know how can we backup out of patch which was not installed properly. As such I haven't gone through this situation but definately like to know what should be done in this situation

Few inputs from gurus are definately increase our knowledge on this issue.

Regards
 

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GUILT-NEW(1)							   Guilt Manual 						      GUILT-NEW(1)

NAME
guilt-new - Create a new patch SYNOPSIS
guilt-new [-f] [-s] [-e|-m message] <patchname> DESCRIPTION
Create a new patch and push it on top of the stack. An optional patch description can be supplied either interactively on via the command line. OPTIONS
-f Force patch creation if there are unrefreshed changes. These changes will get automatically imported into the new patch. -s Add a Signed-off-by with your committer identifier string to the patch message. -e Edit the patch message interactively. This option can be combined with -s to easily sign off on the patch. -m <message> The "<message>" string will used as the commit message. This option can be combined with -s to easily sign off on the patch. <patchname> Name of the patch to create. This must be a legal relative pathname string. For example, "foo", "foo/bar", and "foo/bar/foobar" are all valid. EXAMPLES
Create a new patch called foobar: $ guilt-new foobar Create a patch called foo and supply a patch description interactively: $ guilt-new -e foo Create a patch called bar with a provided patch description and sign off on the patch: $ guilt-new -s -m patch-fu bar AUTHOR
Written by Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net[1]> DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net[1]> GUILT
Part of the guilt(7) suite (Generated for Guilt v0.35) NOTES
1. jeffpc@josefsipek.net mailto:jeffpc@josefsipek.net Guilt v0.35 01/20/2013 GUILT-NEW(1)
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