[pca] pca Digest, Vol 19, Issue 20

[Techie]

Ok I was hoping to create a BE and patch that BE with the required
live upgrade patches from DOC 206844,  and then.. upgrade to u6 or u7
from there.
Would be nice. If I cannot do that then I will download the required
liveupgrade patches and install those on the active BE first..
What a bummer.

GGR, is there a way around this..I was about to try what you wrote above. : )
I have (SUNWluu, SUNWlur and SUNWlucfg) from U7 DVD(05/09) and the
latest patches 121430-37 and 119254-67 installed already. I use only
the default glogal zone or zones.

Thanks a bunch guys.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Don O'Malley<Don.Omalley at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you are planning to install patches on an alternate boot environment
> should should first ensure that you have the minimum requirements on the
> active boot environment met first.
>
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-206844-1 outlines
> the requirements for using Live Upgrade (i.e. patching an alternate boot
> environment).
>
> Best,
> -Don
>
> Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>
> Techie,
> Those patches are just guide lines. PCA will download and install those
> patches on your LU ABE without issues. Some of the patches SUN have added in
> that list, example 120011-14 is an obsoleted patch and LU will not install
> it. But PCA has built in logic to install it last year when SUN created this
> cyclic redundent obsoleted patches.
>
> You do not need to install these patches to make LU work. All you need is a
> LU packages(SUNWluu, SUNWlur and SUNWlucfg) from U6 DVD and one of their
> latest patches 121430-35 or revision 37 if you do not mind the latest and
> greatest from SUN.
>
> Another note about 119254-67, the 1st patch in that list, it is a patch
> utility patch and should always be installed before any patching process.
>
> I have tested LU and have been using LU on all versions of Solaris 10 (U1 to
> U5) and I just let PCA install patches on the ABE.
>
> 119254-66 and later revisions supports multiple patching or parallel
> patching of Zones. So if you have zones, you might want to look into the
> readme of that patch and change the values in /etc/patch/pdo.conf
>
> With the SUN recomended method you will need to reboot your server twice,
> once after installing the pre-requisites. By using PCA, you can install all
> the patches in 1 shot, then reboot to the newly patched ABE.
>
> Let me know if you need more details as we use this on all our dev and prod
> server at our office.
>
> -GGR
>
> --
> Rajiv G Gunja
> Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com
>
>
> 2009/8/21 Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>
>>
>> Techie wrote:
>>>
>>> Will the  pca -y -d -a -t 4 command download every patch? Or do i
>>> specify the patches i want?
>>
>> It will download all missing patches by default, just like "pca -si" will
>> install all missing patches by default. But you can specify a list of
>> patches both with the "pca -d" and the "pca -si" command to download or
>> install only a subset of patches.
>>
>> Martin.
>>
>
>