How to apply solaris patches.
Ok, I am helping out as a consultant on a Solaris device driver project. I have an Intel EM64T machine with Solaris 10 x64 installed along with Sun Studio tools. I am trying to compile a device driver as a module for Solaris and I got some error in peekpoke_ctlops_t in some ddi_xxx header file /usr/include/sys. I did an online search and figured out that i need patch 118844-27 but it is obseleted by 118844-30 patch. So I registered with SunSolver and downloaded the WinZip file for the patch.
How do I apply the patch now?. Note that the machine that I downloaded the winzip file is NOT my Solaris machine as the Solaris machine is not on the Internet (behind a firewall, actually).
I have heard of updatemanager or patchadd. How do I apply the patches?. what are the built-in tools that come with Solaris?. I have Sun Studio Compiler collection as well as the Solaris Software companion with me ( I purchased all the DVD from Sun for just under $50).
Thanks,
RK
