How to tell Update Manager to ignore a patch
Folk'ses,
the use and functioning of Update Manager seems to be getting better now. Today I was able to do an install of 80+ patches without an error msg ;)
however, I have the problem, that update manager always shows me a number of patches which I don't need or want, eg for drivers of devices which I don't have. before I start the installation I always have to go through the whole list and deselect them, because they would cause a failure of the whole procedure.
now my question: is there a way to specify/configure that certain updates/patches should be ignored? (even Msoft can do that :)
thomas
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kloebera] at [2007-11-27 4:26:06]
# 2
Normally solaris included drivers for all devices even if you don't have them.
So patches for devices you don't have will normally still install.
Unless you customised the solaris install and deliberately didnt install the drivers.
Even then, a patch failing to install won't cause any problems for the patch install as a whole. Its just annoying.
But no, as far as I am aware update manager doesnt have any way to mark a patch as "do not install".
I normally just let it try to install everything and live with the occasional fail.
# 4
Robert,
> Even then, a patch failing to install won't cause any problems for the patch install as a whole. Its just annoying.
not quite. this is certainly true for drivers, but I have problems with Mozilla patches which, when installed, screw up my Mozilla setup, which is more than annoying!
Anthony,
how do you set up the smpatch? i have never used it, i thought the GUI is much better from an admin perspective.
thomas
# 5
No need to set anything up. Simply run:
#Get list of patches - just like GUI does, and redirect to list file
smpatch analyze > patchlist.lst
#Edit patchlist.lst to remove unwanted patches - this can be automated with sed, etc
#Apply patches - just like GU does
smpatch update -x idlist=patchlist.lst
you can also download the patches first and then add them at a later date to save time during outages (download in the day, add during the outage)
EXAMPLE:
root@sunlight # smpatch analyze > patchlist.lst
#Edited the output down to 2 patches...
root@sunlight # smpatch update -x idlist=patchlist.lst
119115-26 has been validated.
122212-18 has been validated.
Installing patches from /var/sadm/spool...
119115-26 has been applied.
122212-18 has been applied.
/var/sadm/spool/patchpro_dnld_2007.05.16@11:40:21:MDT.txt has been moved to /var/sadm/spool/patchproSequester/patchpro_dnld_2007.05.16@11:40:21:MDT.txt
HTH,
Tony
