The swinstall utility permits the installation of multiple patch bundles with
a deferred configuration. Some of these patch bundles may contain superseded
patches that do not get configured.
After executing swverify \* on your system, these patches show an “installed” software
state in the swagent.log file. This “installed” software state
is not treated as a warning or error by swverify.
The “installed” patches may present a problem
when the current “applied” patch is removed using swremove. The swremove command does not detect or configure a superseded patch
with an “installed” software state.
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Follow these steps to check the state of patches currently
applied to your system:
List the “SD software state” and “patch
state” of both superseded patches and active (or applied)
patches on your system:
/usr/sbin/swlist -a state -a patch_state patch_number
To list all patches, use the command:
/usr/sbin/swlist -a state -a patch_state PH*
For example, the above swlist options may show some differences between an older (superseded)
patch and the current (applied) patch on your system.
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state do not cause any problems, but they require an extra swconfig step when they become the current “applied” patch. |
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HP recommends that you configure a current “applied” patch
in the “installed” SD state with the following
command:
/usr/sbin/swconfig patch_number
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removed and rolled back to a superseded patch left in an “installed” state.
Executing swconfig on a patch in the “superseded” patch
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Use the following options to list active products,
patches, and states:
swlist -l fileset -a state -a patch_state
The previous swlist options will display all active (non-superseded) filesets
with their “SD software state” and “patch
state” attributes.
You can change swlist to display superseded patches by adding the following
line to the /var/adm/sw/defaults file:
swlist.show_superseded_patches=true
or you can use the following command to display superseded
patches:
swlist -l fileset -a state -a patch_state -x \
swlist.show_superseded_patches=true
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