Meh... sure there were some bad bits, but PCA made almost all of them go away... Just the same, I wont miss Sol 10 patching either... ;) Solaris 11.4 for the win! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Chris Wells <[email protected]> Date: 16/8/18 1:56 pm (GMT+10:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [msosug] Not super happy, but good riddance
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. ***************************************************************
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