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

[Martin Paul]

Rajiv Gunja wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I didn't know that. For that using the patch from the cluster might 
be helpful indeed.

> 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

I've got a research environment here, so there are few real production 
servers. The software we use for HPC gets installed via jumpstart 
scripts or is in a network wide /usr/local directory, data is mostly 
code, kept in home directories or global directories on a central 
server. So I'm in the lucky situation that I can re-install many 
machines automatically at night, and on those it's easiest to run the 
newest release to keep patching to a minimum.

Martin.