[pca] Missing sconadm on Solaris 10 1/13

[francis picabia]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:10 AM, Martin Paul <martin.paul at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Check out Oracle Support Document 1528698.1 (How to register smpatch on
> Solaris 10 1/13):
>
>   https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1528698.1
>
> "As sconadm has been removed in Solaris 10 1/13 and there unfortunately is
> no working replacement at the moment, this document offers a workaround how
> to get Solaris 10 1/13 registered to be able to use smpatch."
>
> So there's no out-of-the-box working patch tool in Solaris 10 1/13. On the
> other hand - was there ever any? :)

This is the funniest thing I've read all day.

Isn't this the equivalent of Microsoft saying they have removed
Windows Activation, required for Windows Update?

Next I'm expecting a statement that Solaris is so unbreakable it
doesn't need patches.

The strange thing is, I had this misplaced optimism that Ian Murdock
would fix Sun's wacky series of patch tools with something fast and
robust like dpkg or pkg-get.  I was totally wrong.