Patch status

Patches have an associated status. The initial value of a patch's status does not change, but over the life of the patch, modifiers might be added (as described in this section). You can find the value for a patch's status in the Status field. This field is in the patch’s patch details page on the ITRC and in the patch text file. To obtain the most up-to-date values for patch status, use the patch details page. A patch status has the following values and modifiers to describe it.

Initial values for patch status include the following:

•General Release (GR)

HP has approved GR patches for widespread use.

•Special Release (SR)

HP intends an SR patch for limited distribution. It is available only through special channels.

Modifiers for patch status values include the following:

•Superseded

Indicates that the patch has been replaced by a newer patch. For more information about supersession, see “Ancestors and supersession” (page 25).

Results in the additional patch status values General Superseded and Special Superseded.

•With Warnings

Indicates that the patch has an associated warning. For more information about warnings, see “Patch warnings” (page 38).

Results in the additional patch status values General Release With Warnings and

Special Release With Warnings.

Most patches have a status of General Release or General Superseded.

Patch state

A patch that has been installed on a target system is assigned an attribute called patch_state that provides information about a patch. For example, the patch_state tells you whether the patch has been committed or superseded. For more information about attributes, see “Patch-related attributes” (page 29).

There are four values for patch_state:

•applied

The patch is currently active on the system and is the most recent member of its supersession chain to have been loaded.

•committed

The patch's rollback files have been deleted, or the patch was installed without saving rollback files. The patch cannot be directly removed from the system. For more information about patch rollback, see “Patch rollback and commitment” (page 33).

•superseded

The patch has been superseded by another patch that has been installed on the system. The patch is no longer active. For more information about supersession, see “Ancestors and supersession” (page 25).

•committed/superseded

The patch has been committed and superseded by another patch installed on the system.

Patch-related concepts

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