From: Gold Sun (goldsun8@yahoo.com.sg)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 21:50:57 EDT
Thanks to Casper, Jonathan, Reggie, Ed, Bernd & possibly
others that I may have missed. This list has helped a lot.
My questions are preceded by > & replies are preceded
by - below.
>a)will patchadd/installpatch checks if existing packages
> is present before it install the patch, eg: check if TIFF
> package is present in the system before it applies the
> patch for TIFF (such as patch 114219-11 for Solaris 9)?
> What about installpatch?
-Yes; installpatch will fail if the software to be patched
is not installed.
-When installing a patch cluster, it'll only install patches
for which prequisites are already installed.
-yep
>b)will patchadd/installpatch prompt/advise us to reboot
> the system after patching or we're expected to do
> this by default for the patch to take effect?
-The readme tells you whether that is necessary or not.
-Maybe, you should always read the patch README before
applying a patch
-It will advise a reboot, but not force it.(_Typically
it won't install patches that might be unsafe in multi
user, if the machine is in multi user mode)
-Yes - This is normally only needed for a kernel patch though.
>Lastly, if I were to take a backup prior to applying a
>patch, what backup would you suggest,
>"ufsdump of the root partition & /var partition?
-Whatever partitions you have which contain the total
of /, /usr, /var and possibly /opt.
-Yes, /, /var and /usr are enough.
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