[pca] OS CPU
Xu, Ying (Houston)
Ying.Xu at littonloan.com
Tue Jul 20 19:38:33 CEST 2010
That's fine. Do you happen to know what's oracle main platform for
their CPU testing?
Thanks
Ying Xu <yxu at littonloan.com>
Unix Group
Office: 713-218-4508
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4828 Loop Central Dr. Houston TX 77081
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[mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:19 PM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] OS CPU
Both OS & Oracle Stack CPUs will be fully tested, just not necessarily
together on the same box by the same team...
I realize that from your perspective this may be desirable, but please
understand that we have limited resources and it is not possible for our
team to cover every possible combination of CPU delivery during our
testing.
Best,
-Don
Xu, Ying (Houston) wrote:
No. We do not have problems using Oracle CPUs on solaris
platform. We always schedule separate maintenance windows for OS and
oracle patches. Since oracle releases CPUs for OS and Oracle at the
same time, we could combine maintenance windows if they are fully
tested. We plan to pursue it anyway.
Thanks
Ying Xu <yxu at littonloan.com>
Unix Group
Office: 713-218-4508
BB: 832-671-6633
4828 Loop Central Dr. Houston TX 77081
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[mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 7:32 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] OS CPU
Hi Ying,
Each team is responsible for testing the CPU that they produce;
we produce the Solaris OS CPU, thus that is what we test.
Our team has lots of experience in Solaris System Test (which
does include some Oracle testing) and with SVR4-format patches (i.e.
standard Sun patches).
We would currently not have the bandwidth to take on additional
testing of the Oracle CPU, as this would require lots of additional
Oracle-specific knowledge and resources, which we do not currently have.
(Oracle CPUs are not even the same format as regular SVR4 patches.)
There is a separate test team that test the Oracle CPU's and as
part of that testing they should test on Solaris.
Have you had specific problems using the Oracle CPU's on Solaris
previously?
Best,
-Don
Xu, Ying (Houston) wrote:
Thanks, Don. Another question, since oracle releases OS
CPU at the same time as Oracle CPU, do you think that the QC team would
test both CPUs on the same server? We are trying to schedule the down
time for both maintenances and try to figure out if we could combine
them together.
Ying Xu <yxu at littonloan.com>
Unix Group
Office: 713-218-4508
BB: 832-671-6633
4828 Loop Central Dr. Houston TX 77081
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[mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 11:20 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] OS CPU
Hi Ying,
The CPU is not related to the patchdiag.xref file at
all.
The CPU is simply a snapshot of the Recommended Patch
Clusters taken once a quarter, which contains patches that fix all
publicly announced Security issues (i.e. Oracle Security Alerts) for the
Solaris OS.
See
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm,
http://security.sfbay.sun.com/pad.html and
http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/
cpujul2010.html and for further information.
Best,
-Don
Xu, Ying (Houston) wrote:
I noticed that Oracle/SUN just released its
first Critical Patch Updates (CPU). I'm not sure which xref file it
uses. Does PCA have an option to download/patch CPU? Its README has
update date of 7/6, but the xref file on 7/6 that I downloaded has
kernel patch of 142900-14 instead of 142900-13.
Thanks.
Ying
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