The new PatchFinder tool is now available on http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchfinder/. It's linked off the main SunSolve Patch...
The new PatchFinder tool is now available on http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchfinder/. It's linked off the main SunSolve Patch page, http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=patchpage. Look for the following link immediately under the old PatchFinder search box: The PatchFinder Why a new PatchFinder tool ? The old PatchFinder tool was a pet peeve of mine. You needed to know at least the 6 digit base PatchID of the patch you were trying to find in order to find it. Rather self...
The new PatchFinder tool is now available on http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchfinder/. It's linked off the main SunSolve Patch page, http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=patchpage. Look for the...
My colleague, Enda O'Connor, has published 3 more patching articles on Big Admin which I hope you will find useful: Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm Failure in...
My colleague, Enda O'Connor, has published 3 more patching articles on Big Admin which I hope you will find useful: Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm Failure in the Solaris OS How to gather and analyze the necessary information to determine why a 'patchadd' or'patchrm'session failed. How to Split a Root Mirrored With Solaris Volume ManagerPrior to Updating Software How to split a Solaris Volume Managermirror priorto updating the software through upgrades or patches. How to...
My colleague, Enda O'Connor, has published 3 more patching articles on Big Admin which I hope you will find useful: Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm Failure in the Solaris OS How to gather and analyze...
Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) and subsequent Kernel PatchIDs The Kernel patch included in Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) has now been released to SunSolve. The...
Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) and subsequent Kernel PatchIDs The Kernel patch included in Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) has now been released to SunSolve. The PatchIDs are 139555-08 (SPARC) and 139556-08 (x86). The rest of the patches included in Solaris 10 5/09 are either released or in the process of being released over the next week or so. I've updated the Solaris Kernel PatchID sequence listed in http://blogs.sun.com/patch/date/20080416 to reflect this, including the...
Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) and subsequent Kernel PatchIDs The Kernel patch included in Solaris 10 5/09 (Update 7) has now been released to SunSolve. The PatchIDs are 139555-08 (SPARC) and 139556-08...
A software glitch caused a number of empty patches to be accidentally released last week. The PatchIDs are: 139555, revisions -01 to -07: Solaris 10: Kernel...
A software glitch caused a number of empty patches to be accidentally released last week. The PatchIDs are: 139555, revisions -01 to -07: Solaris 10: Kernel Patch 139556, revisions -01 to -07: Solaris 10_x86: Kernel Patch 139981-01: Solaris 10_x86: md patch The above patches have been removed from SunSolve. All of these patches were empty (i.e. they contained no payload packages), so they are incapable of being installed or causing any problems on a customer system. ...
A software glitch caused a number of empty patches to be accidentally released last week. The PatchIDs are: 139555, revisions -01 to -07: Solaris 10: Kernel Patch 139556, revisions -01 to -07:...
My colleague, Jeff Victor, has written an excellent and informative blog posting on how to improve patching performance, "patching zones goes zoom!". Enjoy!
Here's a Solaris patch presentation (updated August 30th 2010) which I hope will be of use to customers, partners, and field engineers. It distills much of the...
Here's a Solaris patch presentation (updated August 30th 2010) which I hope will be of use to customers, partners, and field engineers. It distills much of the information contained in this blog, including the recommended patching strategy, best practices, news on patching enhancements, background information on Solaris and the bug fix process, etc. Patching isn't a one-size-fits-all operation, but I hope you find the information provided a useful guideline.
Here's a Solaris patch presentation (updated August 30th 2010) which I hope will be of use to customers, partners, and field engineers. It distills much of the information contained in this blog,...
My team and I have been working with the SunSolve team on improvements to the Patch Cluster pages on SunSolve. These improvements went live on April 20, 2009....
My team and I have been working with the SunSolve team on improvements to the Patch Cluster pages on SunSolve. These improvements went live on April 20, 2009. The old "Recommended Patch Clusters" and "Recommended and Security Patches" pages have been combined into a single Patch Cluster & Patch Bundle Downloads page. A Notice Board section at the top of the page will be used to alertcustomers to current issues. Click on the cluster headings to see a brief description of the...
My team and I have been working with the SunSolve team on improvements to the Patch Cluster pages on SunSolve. These improvements went live on April 20, 2009. The old "Recommended Patch Clusters" and...
A fix to the unzip utility is available in recent patch utility patch revisions. This fix is required in order to be able to successfully unzip very large...
A fix to the unzip utility is available in recent patch utility patch revisions. This fix is required in order to be able to successfully unzip very large files such as the Solaris 10 Recommended and Sun Alert Patch Clusters. Please download the latest revision of the patch utilities patch first and install it, before attempting to unzip the Solaris 10 Recommended or Sun Alert Patch Clusters. The fix was incorporated in the putback to CRs 6344676 and 6464056. The following...
A fix to the unzip utility is available in recent patch utility patch revisions. This fix is required in order to be able to successfully unzip very large files such as the Solaris 10 Recommended and...
I've been asked to post a clarification: You cannot patch Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 or 9 as the version of 'patchadd' in Solaris 8 and 9 is totally unaware of...
I've been asked to post a clarification: You cannot patch Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 or 9 as the version of 'patchadd' in Solaris 8 and 9 is totally unaware of how to handle Zones and other Solaris 10 specific features. If using Live Upgrade to upgrade an inactive boot environment from Solaris 8 or 9 to Solaris 10, you must activate and boot into the Solaris 10 boot environment before patching it. For example, activate and boot into the Solaris 10 boot environment, and...
I've been asked to post a clarification: You cannot patch Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 or 9 as the version of 'patchadd' in Solaris 8 and 9 is totally unaware of how to handle Zones and other Solaris 10...
