Update Manager on live upgrade systems

Update Manager looks to be very useful but on most of my servers

and my workstation I've got live upgrade configured, so I don't really

want to be patching the current system.

Can UM be configured to utilise luupgrade to apply patches to the

alternate boot environment, or even allow selected patches to be

downloaded into /var/sadm/spool for manual installation.

[403 byte] By [Clive_Ashford] at [2007-11-26 6:02:48]
# 1
Not currently. The Update Manager relies directly on smpatch and Patchpro to analyze the system, download patches and install them. As a result, it's only able to deal with the active boot environment.Frederic
LostInColorado at 2007-7-6 13:26:40 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 2

Frederick is correct that UM does not support download only of patches, however, the cli command smpatch does. Take a look at the man page for smpatch and specifically the download subcommand.

BTW, being able to use UM to patch live upgrade images sounds like a great future feature.

-Dave

rave@sun at 2007-7-6 13:26:40 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...