How to Remove a Patch From the Global Zone and All Non-Global Zones

You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

   To create the role and assign the role to a user, see "Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map)" in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Execute the patchrm command followed by the patch ID.

   global# patchrm patch_id

   
   

How to Remove a Patch From a Specified Non-Global Zone Only

To remove a patch from a specified non-global zone only, the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES package parameter for all packages in the patch set must be set to false.

You must be the zone administrator in the non-global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Log in to the non-global zone as the zone administrator.

2. While in the non-global zone, my-zone in this procedure, execute the patchrm command followed by the patch ID.

   my-zone# patchrm patch_id

   
   

Checking Package Parameter Settings on a System with Zones Installed

Before you add or remove a software package, you can use the pkgparam command to check package parameter settings. This step is optional. This check also can be done when troubleshooting why a package is not added or removed as expected. For information about displaying package parameter values, see the pkgparam(1) man page.

(Optional) How to Check the Setting of a Package Already Installed on the System

• To check the package parameter setting of a package that is already installed in a global or non-global zone, use pkgparam followed by the package name and the name of the parameter.

  my-zone% pkgparam package_name SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES true my-zone% pkgparam package_name SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW false

  
  

(Optional) How to Check the Setting of a Package in Software on a CD-ROM

• To check the package parameter setting of an uninstalled package in software located on a CD-ROM, use pkgparam -d with the path of the CD-ROM followed by the package name and the name of the parameter.

  my-zone% pkgparam -d /cdrom/cdrom0/directory package_name SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES true my-zone% pkgparam -d /cdrom/cdrom0/directory package_name SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW false