[pca] Strange patch requirement for 125556-09

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Jan 19 12:23:32 CET 2011


Laurent Blume wrote:
> Yes, the lack of dependency is kind of surprising. Is there some other 
> special handling of them in PCA or Sun patching tools to ensure they are 
> applied in the correct order if needed?

125555/125556 are not handled in a special way in PCA. I do sort the patch 
utility patches to the top of the list, because the install_cluster does the 
same, but I'm not otherwise messing with patch dependencies.

As for Sun/Oracle: They seem to strongly encourage the use of patch clusters 
only. Gerry Haskins writes:

   As discussed in the
   http://blogs.sun.com/patch/entry/solaris_10_recommended_patching_strategy
   which I published last week, we're really trying to encourage customers to
   move away from selecting unique patch combinations and to instead use the
   Solaris OS patch clusters and patch bundles as the core of your patching
   strategy.

Maybe I shouldn't say this, but it's obvious anyway: Oracle doesn't want you to 
use PCA for patching. But I can live with that :)

Martin.



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