Cleaning up patch backout files

Thanks to PCI (Payment Card Industry), I have recently found myself in a
place where I need to be able to clean up old patches on a large number
of Sun servers.

A search of the archives turned up this this email (below) from 2003.

Fast forward (6) years, and given Solaris 10, I am curious what others
are doing to clean up/out patches, after you have determined that you
will not need to back out.

The link below is dead, and was not archived in the WayBack Machine... :(

Thanks for any replies, I will summarize.

Jerry






Hello Guru's

The email from Tim Villa below and the link provided by Alan Bradley state
more-or-less the same thing: Just delete the save files to free up the
space.

Alan's link is:

http://www.ucf.ics.uci.edu/pipermail/unix-admin/2002-September/001079.html

Tim's response and my original message below.

I just manually rm the directory in /var/sadm/pkg/PACKAGE/save, that's
never done me any harm :-)

You'll want to find out all the packages a patch affects - you can get the
patch install directory (just look up the SUNW* names really).

Tim

At 09:12 AM 18/02/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Hi all,

Does anybody know of a way to clean up the patch backout files and the
showrev database?

Once a 3rd or 4th instance of a patch has been applied over the previous
ones, I'd like to remove some of the old backout files, but generally once
I know that an applied patch does not have any adverse effects, I'd like
to
delete all the old files without creating stale / dead references anywhere
(such as in the showrev database)

Any alternative / similar ideas or solutions you use are welcome!
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