[pca] openSolaris patching?

[Paul B. Henson]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Martin Paul wrote:

> So I second your request - I'd be interested about patching in the new
> OpenSolaris 2008.05 release now, too. I haven't heard anything about
> patch formats, tools, etc.

I did some research yesterday. The new openSolaris distribution seems to
have switched to a new packaging format more similar to the typical Linux
distribution packaging.

The documentation is available at:

	http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/ggcph.html

Rather than installing packages, and then layering patches on top of them
that provide updates to multiple packages, every package is versioned and
updates are performed by installing a newer version of each package. To
upgrade an existing system to the latest and greatest versions,
theoretically it should be as simple as "pkg image-update"...

Perhaps the pain, horror and frustration of Solaris patching will become an
un-fond memory :)...


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