[install-discuss] Re: [osol-help] Doubt reg patchadd & patchrm

[Adrian Florea]

I think you can do something with "direct patch" or
something.
A kind of "extra rule" - you must have a ".diPatch"
file in the patch folder. Also I think you can use
this with some options to patchadd.

Maybe it helps,
Adrian.



--- Albert White <Albert.White at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Rathinamurthy wrote:
>  > I am trying to create patces for my application
> in Solaris.I want to give
>  > the ability to backout to my patches.
> > Can i use the patchadd ,patchrm utilities ..but
> this utilities expect the PATCHID in
> > the below format..
> > SUNW_PATCHID=******-**[* is 0-9]
> > 
> > Is this format specific for SUN OS patches ..or
> any application developer can use this..?
> 
> I don't think patches have to conform to that
> exactly. IDR patchid's for 
> example are prefixed with IDR which patchadd can
> install fine. I'm not sure 
> if you can replace the patchid itself with a regular
> string (eg. 
> APPPATCH-05), I've cc'd install-discus some folks
> there are more familiar 
> with the patchadd/pdo code.
> 
> Out of interest, how are you creating the patches?
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Albert
> 
> -- 
> Albert White - Patch System Test - Sun Ireland
> albert.white at sun.com  http://blogs.sun.com/albertw
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