[pca] Create a --singleuser flag?

Eric Ham ham.eric at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 18:07:12 CET 2008


Hello,

I'm in the process of evaluating the 196 outstanding patches on one of
my Solaris 10 servers. I'd like to use the --noreboot flag to get as
many patches installed in multi-user and then later go to single-user
and apply the remaining patches.

However, I have run across the following 3 patches that require
single-user, but do not require a reboot or reconfigure as stated in
their respective README and patchinfo files.

127755-01
128402-02
138247-01

If I were to run the --noreboot flag right now in multi-user then I
believe it would install these 3 patches? Which I don't really want to
do.

Instead, is there a way to make patches like these 3 not get installed
with the --noreboot flag or perhaps create a new --singleuser flag or
something similar that could be used to exclude these patches? It
appears that there is a "singleuser" value in the PATCH_PROPERTIES
keyword of the patchinfo file for these 3 patches, but I don't know
how accurately that keyword is populated for other patches.

Regards,
-Eric



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