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    Hi,<br>
    <br>
    All you ever wanted to know about patch metadata and URIs to link to
    patch README & downloads...<br>
    <br>
    Gerry Haskins posted the following blog yesterday:<br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/useful_patch_related_downloads">http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/useful_patch_related_downloads</a><br>
    <br>
    Interesting stuff which is well worth a read...<br>
    Please don't be shy about posting a comments on Gerry's blog if
    you've something to add :-)<br>
    <br>
    While I'm at, below are some additional links that provide extremely
    useful patching info:<br>
    (Let me know if you want me to resend these in text rather than html
    format)<br>
    <ul>
      <li class="link"><a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/"
          title="Gerry Haskins' excellent patching Blog with regularly
          updated Solaris patching related posts"
          id="link_219579954235218528484157469066781204567">BLOG -
          Gerry's Patching Blog</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/useful_patch_related_downloads"
          title="Great blog entry describing the how to get patch
          metadata and construct URIs to downlaod patches and view
          READMEs" id="link_230033689433170601586492619564393974533">BLOG
          - Patch Metadata, READMEs & downloads</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_10_kernel_patchid_progression"
          title="Blog posting containing the latest Solaris 10 kernel
          Patch ID's" id="link_219580087903224950061027541402105094274">BLOG
          - Solaris 10 Kernel Patch ID's<br>
          <br>
        </a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1350703.1"
          title="Portal page for info on patches for Sun Disk Storage"
          id="link_230032200325317744295283722717132768109">MOS - Sun
          Disk Storage Patches and Updates Information Center</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1269292.1"
          title="Explanation of how patch entitlement works for Sun
          patches on MOS"
          id="link_219583664104260038836463569911765759460">MOS - Sun
          Patch Entitlement</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1289614.1"
          title="Portal providing lots of usefule customer-facing links
          for patch related material"
          id="link_219569704627869127425970850334639866519">MOS - Sun
          Patches Information Center</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1272947.1"
          target="_blank">MOS - Solaris CPU & Recommended Clusters</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1199543.1"
          title="Great documnet detailing everything you need to know to
          automate Sun patch downloads from MOS"
          id="link_219576942545069277620012657025072453518">MOS - Using
          'wget' to Automate Sun Patch Downloads</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1021776.1"
          target="_blank">MOS - Weekly Sun Alert Report 2011</a><a
href="https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1199543.1"
          title="Great documnet detailing everything you need to know to
          automate Sun patch downloads from MOS"
          id="link_219576942545069277620012657025072453518"><br>
          <br>
        </a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/patches/firmware/index.html"
          title="Overview of firmware updates per Sun system"
          id="link_219576950784358857700090541059894615753">OTN -
          Firmware Patching Hub</a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/patches/overview/index.html"
          title="Sun Patching Center pages on OTN (formerly Sun's
          BigAdmin pages)"
          id="link_219583749392027809801979197561986835666">OTN - Sun
          Patching Center<br>
          <br>
        </a></li>
      <li class="link"><a
href="https://communities.oracle.com/portal/server.pt/community/oracle_solaris_installation,_booting_and_patching/397"
          target="_blank">Oracle Communities - Sun Installation, Booting
          and Patching Community</a></li>
      <li class="link"><span id="communities-list"
          class="communities-list"><a
href="https://communities.oracle.com/portal/server.pt/community/patch_reviews_-_sun/473"
            style="color: red;" id="473">Oracle Communities - Patch
            Reviews - SUN</a></span></li>
    </ul>
    If you have any links/resources you use a lot that are not listed
    above please let me know.<br>
    <br>
    Best,<br>
    -Don<br>
    <br>
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      <font size="2" face="Verdana, sans-serif"><b>Don O'Malley</b></font><br>
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        Manager, Patch System Test<br>
        Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware <br>
        East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland<br>
        Phone: +353 1 8199764 <br>
        Team Alias: <a
          href="mailto:rpe_patch_system_test_ww@oracle.com">rpe_patch_system_test_ww@oracle.com</a><br>
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