Yet it never goes away; I'm looking at some Sol9 explorers today...
On Thu, 16 Aug 2018, Chris Wells wrote: > Solaris 10 reached Extended Support in Jan 31. We've just found that we can't > download the 10_Recommended.zip file any longer. > > Since Oracle (and Sun for that matter) never kept historical versions of > 10_Recommended Patch Sets (Clusters), we basically can't patch our boxes any > longer (unless you've happened to have kept an old version of > 10_Recommended.zip). > > However, I don't think I'll ever miss Sun patching, packaging. We just spent > a couple of months patching 5 M5ks. It's not something I'd wish on my enemies. > And for the patch script to take 2 hours to apply [hiding the zones first], > is plainly ridiculous. > > There were just too many hacks and issues: > > The awful N-to-M relationship between patches and packages, the fact that you > can have a partially applied "patch" > Obsoleted patches introduced circular dependency logic; the complete mess > that was introduced with zones ; (I've seen patches that say you need to > apply them in the global zone, that wont apply due to them being under or > over release in the sparse zone) > Issues with live upgrade packages (SUNWlu*) > Issues with SUNWstosreg/ SUNWservicetagu packages > Issues with sparse zones / full-root zones > Patches that were installed without having back out data > Patches which say that they can only be installed in the global zone, but you > can't because the child zone is above rev, and can't be backed out > Corrupted /var/sadm/... > Live upgrade doesn't work with lofs filesystem > liveupgrade doesn't work with zones with zpools shared between zones > ...the list goes on and on. > > > "zoneadm: zone XXXXXX : ERROR: attempt to downgrade package SUNWsomething, > the source had patch XXXXXX-NN but this system only has XXXXXX-MM..." > "Fatal failure occurred - impossible to install any patches." > "SUNWlu-xxxxxxxxx: For patch 149646-02, required patch 147147-26 does not > exist." > "These packages installed on this system were not installed on the source > system:" > "These packages installed on the source system are inconsistent with this > system:" > > > #GoodRiddance > > *************************************************************** > This is a confidential message intended for the named recipient(s) only. The > contents herein are privileged to the sender and the use thereof is > restricted to the intended purpose. If you have received this e-mail in > error, please do not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or relay on this > email. If receipt is in error, please advise the sender by reply email. Thank > you. > *************************************************************** > -- Andre van Eyssen. Phone: +61 417 211 788 mail: [email protected] http://andre.purplecow.org About & Contact: http://www.purplecow.org/andre.html _______________________________________________ msosug mailing list [email protected] http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug
