Re: [pca] patch flood

2013-02-08 Thread Gael Martinez
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Martin Paul martin.p...@univie.ac.atwrote: Judging from today's patch flood, it's pretty sure that Solaris 10U11 is right around the corner :) As usual, I installed all the new patches with PCA on both sparc and x86 - works fine. Users of PCA's --safe option

Re: [pca] patch flood

2013-02-08 Thread Gael Martinez
Don Too many of the previous GA kernels were alas defective and it is not inspiring to use the initial release to be honest... Does that patch include a lot of new features ? Or is it just a big maintenance patch ? Regards Gael On Feb 8, 2013, at 4:09, Don O'Malley don.omal...@oracle.com

Re: [pca] Missing list in Solaris 11

2012-08-22 Thread Gael Martinez
11 ** ** Gael is right. Solaris 11 uses IPS repositories for patching. As much as we love pca -- this is still a very good thing. :) 'pkg update' is your new friend. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Gael.martinez gael.marti...@gmail.com wrote: David, ** ** Solaris 11

Re: [pca] WeSunSolve : New feature: Security / Patch Report for your servers

2012-04-27 Thread Gael Martinez
Thomas, security by obscurantism is alas prefered by large corporations security teams... such usually rely on network scanners to figure out exploitable issues and yea... the output is usually kept secret even within the enterprise... The other topic could be corporations like mine with

[pca] confirming the validiting of a home grown patch_order file

2012-01-24 Thread Gael Martinez
Hello All What would be the fastest/cleanest way with pca to confirm/correct the right patching order for all patches placed in a flat file ? Regards -- Gaƫl Martinez

Re: [pca] can patch 147440-09 be trusted ?

2012-01-09 Thread Gael Martinez
too, hoping to never see 147440-02 listed as broken and withdrawn like a few others in that serie... Regards Gael On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: I guess really the question is, can MOS and Oracle be trusted to provide a kernel

[pca] 143128-05 - Readme not up to date ?

2011-12-06 Thread Gael Martinez
We were looking at a bug today here at work and I was using pca -r as usual to check the README on that patch... I could not find a reference to the patch being OBSOLETED, and with 147701-01 patching the same file, it was an interesting concept... When checking the README online via

Re: [pca] Oracle removed support from patchdiag.xref for --minimal option in pca?

2011-06-08 Thread Gael Martinez
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Jeff variver...@gmail.com wrote: What would be even better is if the CPU contained a copy of patchdiag.xref that can be used by PCA users to replicate the CPU. Why don't you use the patch_order file included in the CPU ? pca does accept a list of patch in a

Re: [pca] Sun contracts

2011-02-02 Thread Gael Martinez
try to download mysql :) reps will be calling/mailing you very quickly :) Regards On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jones, Eric CIV SRF 1236 eric.jo...@srf.navy.mil wrote: Thanks, there used to be a link where you could purchase from the website but now I guess you need a rep. Eric R.

Re: [pca] liveupgrade x86 and GRUB problem

2010-12-29 Thread Gael Martinez
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Roland Soderstrom rola...@logicaltech.com.au wrote: Hi, I used liveupgrade for the first time today and run into a problem. This is a Solaris 10 U7 x86 host. I used the PCA instructions after creating the ABE Live Upgrade PCA can be used in combination

Re: [pca] pca 20101216-02 reports ERROR 403: Service Error.

2010-12-17 Thread Gael Martinez
Mike, Can you access that document without a valid entitlement ? Just dumping the Doc ID into Google didn't show any hit. (or via www.oracle.com search feature using ALL site filter while connected with a valid user) Regards On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Mike Brown

Re: [pca] getupdates.oracle.com now available for testing!

2010-11-21 Thread Gael
Corporation/OU=GTE CyberTrust Solutio ns, Inc./CN=GTE CyberTrust Global Root': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1372402 (1.3M) [text/plain] Saving to: `/Jumpstart/Images/10/0910/Patches/sparc/119255-77.jar' Regards -- Gael