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...
Thanks to my colleague Enda O'Connor, who has made p7zip available for Solaris 8 SPARC, it's now possible to upgrade directly from Solaris 8 SPARC to the latest...
Thanks to my colleague Enda O'Connor, who has made p7zip available for Solaris 8 SPARC, it's now possible to upgrade directly from Solaris 8 SPARC to the latest Solaris 10 Update releases such as Solaris 10 5/08 and Solaris 10 10/08. See document 1019995.1 on My Oracle Support (MOS), http://support.oracle.comPreviously, due to the lack of p7zip on Solaris 8, customers needed to perform an interim upgrade to Solaris 9 or an earlier Solaris 10 release before upgrading to the...
Thanks to my colleague Enda O'Connor, who has made p7zip available for Solaris 8 SPARC, it's now possible to upgrade directly from Solaris 8 SPARC to the latest Solaris 10 Update releases such...
The following is now published as Infodoc 208057:To whom it may concern, Over time, customers may experience space issues in /var as patch "undo" and "obsolete"...
The following is now published as Infodoc 208057:To whom it may concern, Over time, customers may experience space issues in /var as patch "undo" and "obsolete" data, which is stored for use during patch backout, builds up as more patches are applied to the system. It is best to plan for this expansion of /var in advance, and allocate plenty of free space to this partition. How much space to allocate to /var depends on a number of variables, such as how many patches are...
The following is now published as Infodoc 208057:To whom it may concern, Over time, customers may experience space issues in /var as patch "undo" and "obsolete" data, which is stored for use...
I've updated this blog entry to avoid causing unnecessary confusion with the current patch entitlement policy now that Oracle has acquired Sun. The Solaris...
I've updated this blog entry to avoid causing unnecessary confusion with the current patch entitlement policy now that Oracle has acquired Sun. The Solaris patch entitlement policy is available on http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-203648-1. BTW: It's important to remember that hardware warranties only provide access to Firmware and hardware driver patches. Hardware warranties do not cover software support or access to other Solaris patches.
I've updated this blog entry to avoid causing unnecessary confusion with the current patch entitlement policy now that Oracle has acquired Sun. The Solaris patch entitlement policy is available...
Nothing directly to do with patches but a colleague of mine, Albert White, has produced some code swarm videos of OpenSoalirs code changes which I find way...
Nothing directly to do with patches but a colleague of mine, Albert White, has produced some code swarm videos of OpenSoalirs code changes which I find way cool. I've no idea what's it's telling me, but I'm sure it's telling me something useful if I learn to listen. For example, Area of code change and amount of code change => Risk => Areas on which to concentrate test coverage. I've asked Albert if he can do something similar for Solaris 10. BTW: I like his choice of music...
Nothing directly to do with patches but a colleague of mine, Albert White, has produced some code swarm videos of OpenSoalirs code changes which I find way cool. I've no idea what's it's telling...
