[pca] what is my release number

[Fred]

You can patch your way to the kernel/package equivalent of a release,
but if you want to upgrade to a specific release you need to look more
at a prcedure involving live upgrade.

Fred

On 2/20/12, Wickline, Bob (N-STERLING COMPUTERS CORPORATION)
<bob.wickline at lmco.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, patching does not update the release:
>
> https://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_patches
>
>
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> On Behalf Of McGraw, Robert P
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 2:23 PM
> To: 'pca at lists.univie.ac.at'
> Subject: EXTERNAL: [pca] what is my release number
>
> I was under the impression that installing the latest patches, was the same
> as installing the latest release.
>
> Over the weekend I installed all the latest patches for my host and I still
> get the following release information.
>
> # cat /etc/release
>                         Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 X86
>            Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>                         Use is subject to license terms.
>                              Assembled 30 March 2009
>
> I would like to upgrade to Solaris 10 10/09. How do I do this.
>
> Robert
>
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