If you need to install 100+ patches - now you may use patchadd. It will sort it
out for you and install. When recursive patching will be in place it will be
even better.
Let say you have all you 100 patches in directory /patches
in Solaris 9 you have to:
patchadd -M /patches patch1 patch2 ... patch100
and make sure that they are all in right order.
now you just run
patchadd -M /patches
and 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
and it will pick all other patches which patch57 depends on and install.
vassun
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