[pca] openSolaris patching?

[Paul B. Henson]

On Tue, 13 May 2008, Martin Paul wrote:

> Sun's OpenSolaris comes with a new packaging system (IPS), which is
> incompatible with the current (SysV) package and patch system (pkg*
> commands). Unbundled software (Sun Studio, etc.) might be provided in
> old-style packages, patch-handling for those will be as in Solaris.

Yep. I'm still investigating the new packaging system. I somewhat selfishly
hoped someone had already analyzed it and could've given a good summary :).

> Sun will not produce patches for OpenSolaris. To get a fix for
> OpenSolaris, you have to upgrade to the next build/release.

That used to be the case with Solaris express. However, supposedly for the
new openSolaris distribution each release will be supported for 18 months,
including back porting of security and bug fixes:

	http://www.sun.com/service/opensolaris/index.jsp


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