to ZFS root if you desire, but I would not
recommend going to a new release and ZFS simultaneously. Instead, do it as
separate LiveUpgrade activities to limit the scope of your changes in case
there is an issue.
Also, another plus for LiveUpgrade: If things go South, remember that you can
always boot from alternate media and use luactivate to roll back your changes
and boot the previous BE.
Thanks,
Jarrett
Jarrett Lee
CedarCrestone, Inc.
UNIX Administrator, Server Technologies
Managed Services
Email: jarrett@cedarcrestone.com
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-Original Message-
From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On
Behalf Of Glenn Satchell
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:04 PM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] what is my release number
Patching only updates existing packages already on your system. It does not add
any new features or packages. There is a patch bundle (you'll have to look for
this on MOS) that gets to the release, it even includes a special patch that
updates the release file when done, but the limitation mentioned above still
applies.
Usual procedure is to burn a DVD or network boot and then run the install.
It will detect your existing system and offer to do an upgrade or a fresh
install. The upgrade removes patches and installs new packages, while retaining
the system's configuration.
regards,
-glenn
You can patch your way to the kernel/package equivalent of a release,
but if you want to upgrade to a specific release you need to look more
at a prcedure involving live upgrade.
Fred
On 2/20/12, Wickline, Bob (N-STERLING COMPUTERS CORPORATION)
bob.wickl...@lmco.com wrote:
Unfortunately, patching does not update the release:
https://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_patches
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From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at
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On Behalf Of McGraw, Robert P
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 2:23 PM
To: 'pca@lists.univie.ac.at'
Subject: EXTERNAL: [pca] what is my release number
I was under the impression that installing the latest patches, was
the same as installing the latest release.
Over the weekend I installed all the latest patches for my host and I
still get the following release information.
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 30 March 2009
I would like to upgrade to Solaris 10 10/09. How do I do this.
Robert
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Department of Mathematics PHONE: (765) 494-6055
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:47:57 +0100
From: Martin Paul martin.p...@univie.ac.at
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion pca@lists.univie.ac.at
Subject: Re: [pca] pca-proxy.cgi questions
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Lee, Jarrett wrote:
How does PCA handle multiple clients checking in with the local patch
server simultaneously? What if two servers ask for the same patch
before the patch downloads completely? Does it have a mechanism that
knows the original request to download the patch has not yet completed?
That's no problem, PCA takes care of that. When a client asks for a patch which
is currently being downloaded due to some other request, PCA will complete the
download and then deliver the patch to both clients. This seems to be pretty
robust, I can't remember any recent problem reports about such issues.
We plan to have a few hundred servers downloading patches at one time.
Will this be fine? Anybody else already doing this?
I don't have hundreds of clients, but I've heard from others that have. So this
should be fine. If you do experience any trouble, let me know. Even more, tell
us when you have your setup running and working - success stories are always
welcome :)
If you want to spread the load to multiple servers, you might be interested to
hear that you can even build a cascade of pca proxies - just point one proxy at
another by setting xrefurl/patchurl on a secondary proxy to the primary proxy.
hth,
Martin.
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