SUMMARY: Solaris 10 patch installation weirdness

From: Lars Hecking (lhecking@users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 07:03:42 EDT


Lars Hecking writes:
> I had to go and install patch 124208-01 as postfix stopped compiling.
>
> All this patch contains are header files. So, why on earth did this
> creature of an updatemanager require a reboot ("patch will be installed
> upon reboot")? This is mind boggling - I didn't expect Sun to go back
> to before Windows 98.

 I received one response from Janis Klimowicz. Thanks!

| Instead of using updatemanager -- especially on machines that you don't
| want to reboot, use smpatch instead:
|
| # smpatch analyze
| # smpatch update -i <patch_number>
|
| This will not avoid having to reboot for ALL patches, but will allow you to
| install many patches without rebooting.
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Wed Apr 09 2008 - 23:41:56 EDT