>Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >> BTW: is there already a fixed plan how Solaris 11 (or whatever is next) will >> deal with patches? Live upgrade is very convenient. But patching itself is still slow... > >The new packaging system doesn't use patches at all. It simply upgrades >only the files that have changed in a package and, as a result, is >significantly faster at upgrades. I can't comment on the patchadd >problems beyond that though.
Be biggest problem of the patches as used for Solaris 10 is that we allow installing patches to the system on a live system. That requires us to build backout patches and it's building the backout patches that takes a lot of the time needed. You may want to check the time it takes to install a patch without building the backout files. (-d) Casper
