[pca] pca and -R

[Rajiv Gunja]

Yes, what you are stating is true. After confirming with SUN/Oracle support
they told us that we can install that patch on to the current running BE
without having to reboot.

So in our procedure, we install the latest version of 119254-xx on the
running OS before creating an ABE to patch.

Hope this helps.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


On 25 March 2010 13:04, French, David <David_French at intuit.com> wrote:

>  I was just going through the process of patching a Live Update/Upgrade
> (LU) alternate boot environment (BE) and the following came to me.
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> PCA always applies the latest “Install and Patch Utilities Patch” first
> when doing any patching.  Great idea as that solves some issues especially
> it seems with Solaris 10.   But I just realized while doing the  LU boot
> patching that this doesn’t help when using -R.   I noticed that the first
> patch applied is the same, but it is applied to the alternate root.   PCA
> continues to use the patchadd from the BE that is not patched, thus no
> benefit of any fixes from the  “Install and Patch Utilities Patch”.   Of
> course, this isn’t limited to LU, but anytime –R is used.
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> Anyway, I started patching the current BE with this patch before running
> the pca –R version for the alternate BE.    I wanted others to know in case
> they were also doing pca patching of alternate BE’s under LU, or using –R in
> general.
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> Martin, I was also wondering if you could add information to the
> documentation and/or a warning when –R is used to this affect.
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