[pca] PCA & LiveUpgrade questions and comments

[Don Jackson]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Rajiv Gunja wrote:

> Martin,
> We should also note that luupgrade will install all patches in a given directory in sequence. You have built into PCA, the logic to install a few cyclic redundant patches (120011-14, 122660-10 and 125547-02) which SUN requires to be installed before using LU, but luupgrade will not install.
> 
> luupgrade will work fine if you have already installed LU patch cluster, else I would suggest using PCA for patching standalone OS or OS running non-global zones. 
> 
> Here is what I do: 1. Upgrade SUNWlu packages to the one from U6 DVD.(SUNWluu, SUNWlur, SUNWlucfg and SUNWluzone) 2. Install latest "patch utility patch" and Zone/LU patch (can be installed in multi-user and does not require a reboot - 121428, 121430 and 119254) 3. Create BE and mount it (I always use explicit directory to mount the BE, as I script most of it) 4. Patch the BE.

Yes, that is very similar to what I am doing now:

I install the solaris10_u8 image, then I install the following two patches:

119255 70 < 72 RS-  22 SunOS 5.10_x86: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
121431 43 < 44 ---  66 SunOS 5.8_x86 5.9_x86 5.10_x86: Live Upgrade Patch

Then I reboot (not 100% sure this is necessary),

Then I create the new BE, mount, patch, unmount, and activate the new BE.

So far, so good.

I am going to experiment with installing the two patches above in the Finish script of a JumpStart install, so that once the install is done, I am ready to finish the patching via a new BE.

I can't believe I didn't know about Live Upgrade before now, and that anyone would not use after understanding it!

The final piece of this puzzle will be if I can ever make jumpstart installs of flash archives with ZFS root ever work.  If I ever can, then I can build the patched OS as per the above,
then replicate via subsequent JumpStart installs.


I really appreciate all the good responses on this thread.  Thank you!

Don

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