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.
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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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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
what-patch
WHAT-PATCH(1) General Commands Manual WHAT-PATCH(1)
NAME
what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses
SYNOPSIS
what-patch [options]
DESCRIPTION
what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.
what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.
OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:
-h, --help
Display a help message and exit.
-v Enable verbose mode. This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
details about the patch system if available.
AUTHORS
what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and Daniel Hahler <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
among others. This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.
Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
SEE ALSO
The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems
cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)
DEBIAN
Debian Utilities WHAT-PATCH(1)