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 > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
