[pca] Solaris Update Patch Bundle updates /etc/release

[Rajiv Gunja]

 Martin,
Yes, I will stay away from putting it in a wrapper.


> Personally, I don't care about the modification to /etc/release. I try to
> run the most recent OS update on most machines, and the others aren't
> patched with these special bundles. Remember that you have to install the
> Recommended Cluster after the Update Cluster anyway. If a security audit
> requires the /etc/release mark, just extract the patch from the bundle and
> install it. patchadd will even tell you about the missing requirements.
>
> I think it is more than audit in the future. I think it will be used by
other applications to see if the OS is patched to a certain level and not
that it has to be at certain release/Update. That was one of the hurdles I
met when I wanted to get php, mysql and apache on my U4 server. The SUN
package would not install, as it looked at /etc/release and did not take
into consideration that the U4 was patched to U8 level.

You update to every release? How do you handle your applications? Don't they
have to be reinstalled and data imported? Let me know. Thanks

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
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