[pca] new Solaris 10 "patching strategy" at oracle???

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Thomas,

I think that Jan has answered your question - sudo was indeed released 
as a pkg due to the fact that it was never previously shipped as part of 
a Solaris Update.

No changes to the patch strategy!

Best,
-Don


On 06/12/13 11:22, Thomas Bleek wrote:
> Oh sorry. I by mistake thought, that sudo was included in Solaris 10 
> and only was excluded from the last MU.
>
> My fault.
>
> Thanks,
> thomas
>
> Am 12.06.2013 um 12:07 schrieb Jan Holzhueter <jh at baltic-online.de 
> <mailto:jh at baltic-online.de>>:
>
>> Hi,
>> Am 12.06.13 12:01, schrieb Thomas Bleek:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I wonder, if this is a sign of a change in oracle patching? It seems,
>>> that the last vulnerability of sudo is "patched" by installing an new
>>> package. With pca I don't see a "normal" patch for this:-(
>>>
>>> Could someone explain this, perhaps Don?
>>
>> Well sudo was never part of Solaris 10.
>> They now decided to "include" it in U11.
>> To quote the readme:
>>
>> sudo for Oracle Solaris 10 README
>> ---------------------------------
>>
>> sudo shall be considered as part of Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 release but
>> due to
>> technical reasons sudo packages were released independently and they 
>> are not
>> at Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 media.
>>
>> https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=16443433 
>> <https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download?type=readme&aru=16443433>
>>
>>
>> So yes this is a separate package you need to install.
>> Don't know if they will release patches for it afterwards or if you have
>> to reinstall it every time.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Jan
>>
>
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