<font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Craig,<br>Please note that 'Update on attach' will only work for OS patches(this was mentioned on Oracle's blog), it will not update Application patches if present on the NGZ.<br>
<br>@ our office, we create LU environment and patch the GZ with NGZ using PCA.<br>We prefer this method over shutting down the server to single user mode, as there was a bug which would not boot up the zones, back when zones were still in infancy. Note: We use whole root zones and not sparse zones.<br>
<br>If you want to know how we do, drop me a line and I can send you our process.<br><br>-GGR</font></font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br>--</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 14:27, Craig Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Craig.Bell@standard.com">Craig.Bell@standard.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>> Not me. I have only minimal experience with patch zones (and zones in general).</div>
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</div><div> No worries, thanks Martin. Many zones users prefer to detach them before patching, and then use “zoneadm attach –u” (Update on Attach) afterwards to speed up the patch process. I left this particular full-root zone attached, and let patchadd handle
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<div> I spun another crackpot theory: When patchadd calls zone_enter(), the existing $TMPDIR (relative to GZ root) carries over, and does reflect the chroot()ed zonepath. In other words, package tools in the NGZ try to access a temporary directory accessible
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<div> That may not even be technically possible, but I’ve seen stranger things before, and I’m admittedly short of ideas. =-) Perhaps some other readers have run into this… Anyways, I agree that my syndrome doesn’t look quite the same as the EUID nobody
issue. Thx… -c</div>
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