Sun patching system sucks like hell - 5.9 patches on Solaris 10?
Here's a list of patches that smpatch says are available for my system:
114568-20 SunOS 5.9_x86: usr/sadm/install/bin/pkginstall Patch
117172-17 SunOS 5.9_x86: Kernel Patch
120465-01 SunOS 5.9_x86: bios utility patch
114194-09 SunOS 5.9_x86: patchadd and patchrm Patch
114483-04 SunOS 5.9_x86: Product Registry CLI Revision
121436-01 SunOS 5.9_x86: Live Upgrade Patch (if using S10 LU on S9 system)
120901-03 SunOS 5.10_x86: libzonecfg patch
121334-02 SunOS 5.10_x86: zoneadmd, zlogin and zoneadm patch
119255-19 SunOS 5.10_x86: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
119558-04 SunOS 5.10_x86: tavor Patch
118344-07 SunOS 5.10_x86: Fault Manager Patch
120759-04 Sun Studio 11_x86: Sun Compiler Common patch for x86 backend
My system is: SunOS barlog 5.10 Generic_Patch_118844-30 i86pc i386 i86pc
let's look at one of these patches:
Document Audience:PUBLIC
Document ID:117172-17
Title:SunOS 5.9_x86: Kernel Patch
Copyright Notice:Copyright ?2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Update Date:Mon Jan 24 15:23:36 MST 2005
Are you drunk down there?
I think it's time to start talking with my boss about migration to Linux.
