[pca] Fun with entitlement again

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Apr 20 12:49:55 CEST 2011


Ben Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>> I think some time ago, patches for older versions of Sun Studio were
>> available without the "Software" entitlement, but I just checked versions
>> 12, 12.1 and 12.2 - for all of these the "Software" entitlement is required
>> now.
> 
> I have just a Solaris contract and can still download patches for Studio 12.

Obviously we had tried different architectures. I now tried these:

   124863-26: Sun Studio 12: Patch for Sun C++ Compiler
   124864-26: Sun Studio 12_x86: Patch for Sun C++ Compiler

The first one fails, the second one works. That's due to the different "Support 
Level" required: For the SPARC patch it's "Software" (as expected), for the x86 
patch it's "Software or Firmware". So as of now, an OS contract indeed suffices 
to access the Studio 12 x86 patches. I've given up trying to understand this :)

Martin.



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