[Sunhelp] patches

[Dale Ghent]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Cardinal Christopher wrote:

| If I grep installed patches for 106125, I get:
| 
| Patch: 106125-02 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWswmt
| Patch: 106125-06 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWswmt
| Patch: 106125-07 Obsoletes:  Requires: Incompatibles: Packages:  SUNWswmt
| Patch: 106125-10 Obsoletes:  Requires: Incompatibles: Packages:  SUNWswmt
| 
| Can I safely remove 106125-02, 106125-06, leaving 106125-07 for backup, and
| 106125-10 as active patch? I would like to do this for many patches as disk
| space is getting tight. Thanks.

no. do not remove the patches themselves.

if you want more space in /var, go to /var/sadm/patch and remove the
directories for those prior patches, but dont remove the dir for the
current revision of a patch on your system.

/dale