From: Charles Gagnon (charlesg@unixrealm.com)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 10:16:34 EDT
I need advice for Sun's patch management. I am trying to switch to
using newer tools to analyse my systems, download *signed* patches
and install them, all of which happens automated through scripts (so
no GUI).
I have recently played with a set of commands I like:
smpatch analyze > initial.plist
vi initial.plist # to check that everything looks in order
smpatch analyze -x idlist=initial.plist > ordered.plist
The second analyze get the patch ordered by dependancies. From there
you do "smpatch get" or wget to download AND "smpatch add" or
patchadd to install.
My problem is I have been doing that on a hacked system and I have
having a hard replicating it in Jumpstart. On top on smpatch, I need
patchadd to be able to install signed patches also.
My questions are:
- Which packages do I need to get smpatch (most recent) working
right with no gui. I have found the same commands in:
PatchPro 2.2 and Patch Manager Base 1.0.1
Patch Manager 2.0
What *is* the difference between PatchPro and Patch Manager?
- I also need help getting all the keys installed and setup to able
to use them from patchadd and patchrm. Is there a central place I
get download the certs and install them everywhere?
Suns document talk about SunPKI and SUNWcert. What do I need and
where is it?
If I get this to all work clean I'll post a nice summary and maybe
share some of the scripts and anyone is interested.
--
Charles Gagnon | My views are my views and they
http://unixrealm.com | do not represent those of anybody
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