Hi Ying,
Each team is responsible for testing the CPU that they produce; we
produce the Solaris OS CPU, thus that is what we test.
Our team has lots of experience in Solaris System Test (which does
include some Oracle testing) and with SVR4-format patches (i.e.
standard Sun patches).
We would currently not have the bandwidth to take on additional testing
of the Oracle CPU, as this would require lots of additional
Oracle-specific knowledge and resources, which we do not currently
have. (Oracle CPUs are not even the same format as regular SVR4
patches.)
There is a separate test team that test the Oracle CPU's and as part of
that testing they should test on Solaris.
Have you had specific problems using the Oracle CPU's on Solaris
previously?
Best,
-Don
Xu, Ying (Houston) wrote:
Thanks, Don. Another
question, since oracle releases OS CPU at the same time as Oracle CPU,
do you think that the QC team would test both CPUs on the same
server? We are trying to schedule the down time for both maintenances
and try to figure out if we could combine them together.
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Hi Ying,
The CPU is not related to the patchdiag.xref file at all.
The CPU is simply a snapshot of the Recommended Patch Clusters taken
once a quarter, which contains patches that fix all publicly announced
Security issues (i.e. Oracle Security Alerts) for the Solaris OS.
See http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm,
http://security.sfbay.sun.com/pad.html
and http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpujul2010.html
and for further information.
Best,
-Don
Xu, Ying (Houston) wrote:
I
noticed that Oracle/SUN just released its first Critical Patch Updates
(CPU). I'm not sure which xref file it uses. Does PCA have an option
to download/patch CPU? Its README has update date of 7/6, but the xref
file on 7/6 that I downloaded has kernel patch of 142900-14 instead of
142900-13.
Thanks.
Ying
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