[pca] 5 bad solaris8 patchs in patchdiag.xref ??

Mon Jul 6 15:06:48 CEST 2009

Thanks for the information Don !

Pierre-Yves

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From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 3:04 PM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] 5 bad solaris8 patchs in patchdiag.xref ??

Hi Pierre-Yves,

These patches are all Vintage Solaris 8 patches, which require a Vintage Solaris 8 support contract.

Solaris 8 entered Vintage Phase 2 (End-Of-Service-Life), as of April 1st 2009.
For further information, please check out the following links:
* http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris8eosl.pdf
* http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/Solaris8.html

So, what does this mean for pca users patching Solaris 8 systems?
* If you have a standard Solaris 8 support contract you will continue to have access to Solaris 8 OS patches released before April 1st 2009.
   You will also still be able to access the Solaris 8 Recommended & Sun Alert Patch Clusters from the recently revamped Patch Clusters & Bundles page at http://sunsolve.sun.com/show.do?target=patches/patch-access.
   (Please note that the contents of these clusters will no longer be updated, as part of the End-Of-Service-Life program.)

* If you wish to have access to Solaris 8 patches released after April 1st 2009 you must purchase a Vintage Solaris 8 support contract.
   Further information on how to purchase Vintage Solaris 8 support is available from your local Sun Sales Representative or Sun Authorized Partners (see bottom of http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/Solaris8.html).
  * If you are considering transitioning from Solaris 8 to a later release of Solaris the information at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/support/sol8.xml may be helpful.

How about the information in patchdiag.xref; how will that be affected?
Sun will continue to update the metadata in the patchdiag.xref file for Solaris 8 patches, including adding new patches as they are released.
Please be aware however that without a Vintage Solaris 8 contract you will be unable to download such patches, even if they fix (or accumulate a fix for) a security issue.

Patches which address issues published in a Sun Alert prior to April 1st 2009, will be treated as exceptions to Vintage Solaris 8.
Such patches will be made freely available if they contain a new security fix, or alternatively require a standard Solaris 8 support contract to access.
In addition the Solaris 8 Recommended & Sun Alert clusters will be updated to include these patches.

The following is a list of all Vintage Solaris 8 patches released to date:

+-----------+---------------+---------------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Patch ID  | Release State | Update/Release Date | Group | Patch Synopsis                                                          |
+-----------+---------------+---------------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 108434-25 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-06-04 16:47:57 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8: 32-Bit Shared library patch for C++                          |
| 108435-25 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-06-04 16:54:22 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8: 64-Bit Shared library patch for C++                          |
| 108436-23 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-06-04 19:34:13 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8_x86: Shared library patch for Sun C++ x86                     |
| 117351-62 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-05-12 21:32:15 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8_x86: kernel patch                                             |
| 127721-01 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-05-12 20:43:19 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8: kernel patch                                                 |
| 127722-01 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-05-12 22:12:40 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8_x86: kernel patch                                             |
| 128624-12 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-04-24 23:39:13 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8: LDAP2 client, libc, libthread and libnsl libraries patch     |
| 128625-12 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-04-24 23:34:45 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8_x86: LDAP2 client, libc, libthread and libnsl libraries patch |
| 140841-01 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-05-13 01:44:06 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8: gssd patch                                                   |
| 140842-01 | RELEASE_TO_ES | 2009-05-13 01:44:13 | WOS   | SunOS 5.8_x86: gssd patch                                               |
+-----------+---------------+---------------------+-------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

HTH,
-Don

Pierre-Yves.Thillier at infineon.com<mailto:Pierre-Yves.Thillier at infineon.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am having troubles with 5 solaris8 patchs and was wondering if you could help me.
bash-2.03#  /usr/sbin/pca -l
Using /tmp/patchdiag.xref from Jun/12/09
Host: vlbuat10 (SunOS 5.8/Generic_117350-62/sparc/sun4u)
Root: /
List: missing (5/242)

Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------
108434 24 < 25 ---  32 SunOS 5.8: 32-Bit Shared library patch for C++
108435 24 < 25 ---  32 SunOS 5.8: 64-Bit Shared library patch for C++
127721 -- < 01 ---  54 SunOS 5.8: kernel patch
128624 11 < 12 -S-  70 SunOS 5.8: LDAP2 client, libc, libthread and libnsl libraries patc
140841 -- < 01 -S-  54 SunOS 5.8: gssd patch

If I try to install them, I get the following messages
Failed
Failed (no Sun Online Account data)
Failed (patch not found)

I checked the up-to-date patchdiag.xref and these 5 patchs still belong to it.

If I log to sunsolve I can see them but I'm not able to download them.....my sun account works fine for every other patch, no problem on this side...

What do you think ? Bad patchs ? Sunsolve bug ? ??
Thank you !

Pierre-Yves

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