How Many Patches should there be?

[jdkoerner]

I am currently at 11,604 in my ZPM bundle directory most are orphaned
patches from when the patch system was changed in 10.2.

Best Regards,
Jim Koerner

"andystewartSL" <andystewartSL@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> In my ZPM folder, i'm showing 4,256 patches and climbing - is this
> right?
>
> It looks like there are duplicates to me?
>
> MS 829558 Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 (SP8) (Rev 2 000000BE
> MS 829558 Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 (SP8) (Rev 2 000000BF
> MS 829558 Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 (SP8) (Rev 2 000000C0
> MS 829558 Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 (SP8) (Rev 2 000000C1
> MS 829558 Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 (SP8) (Rev 2 000000C2
> MS 829558 Microsoft Jet 4.0 Service Pack 8 (SP8) (Rev 2 000000C3
> MS 832353 Update for Windows Media Player URL Script Co 000000C4
> MS 832353 Update for Windows Media Player URL Script Co 000000C5
> MS 832353 Update for Windows Media Player URL Script Co 000000C6
> MS 832353 Update for Windows Media Player URL Script Co 000000C7
> MS 832353 Update for Windows Media Player URL Script Co 000000C8
> MS 832353 Update for Windows Media Player URL Script Co 000000C9
>
> Some questions:
>
> - Is there any way to remove all the AV patches from being downloaded?
> We have seperate AV servers for our AV that handle updates, so how can I
> remove all the AV patches from ZPM?
> - Are these duplicates correct? Is there any way to do a "reset" of
> the patch management (ie delete all the bundles under ZPM so I can make
> sure its "clean"?
>
> Running 10.2 on Windows 2003 servers (not going 10.2.1 yet due to
> issues I can see on the forum, and the fact 10.2 is nice and stable for
> now)
>
>
> --
> Andy Stewart - Somewhere In Scotland
> zcm 10.2.0, 4 servers in esx vm environment, 1300 users so far...
> (i'd still rather be snowboarding)
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