Vassun, > now you just run > > patchadd -M /patches > d it will "sort them all out and install" for you. If > some patches are not applicable - you will be > warned. > > With recursive patching you may say > > patchadd -D -M /patches patch57 > d it will pick all other patches which patch57 > depends on and install.
Really nice solution - but it has a big drawback: Using this method you don't know which patches will be applied to the system until patchadd finished. IMHO that's not really usable on a production system. Until now we only install patches which we know and which we tested on a test system. And we also check the readme of every patch we install if it changes important configuration files on the machine or if it needs additional configuration files or entries (for example in /etc/system). On the other hand: A recursive patch installation with "dryrun" mode (only list the patches that would be applied but do not install them) would be nice ( I don't have a Solaris 10 system ready right now so that I could check the man page of patchadd if the "dryrun" mode already exists) regards Bernd > > vassun This message posted from opensolaris.org
