I’ll send you some peanuts to make up for it Rich. Is your PO box the best address? ;)
B > On 16 Aug 2018, at 9:24 pm, Richard Spindler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Meh PCA, we wrote a much better tool at Monash... Pitty we couldn’t sell it > to make up for the peanuts we got paid... > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 19:22, nathan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: 16/8/18 1:56 pm (GMT+10:00) > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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. > *************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > msosug mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mexico.purplecow.org_m_listinfo_msosug&d=DwMFaQ&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=fgPSHuZXK315EaA-0TLW5FZPCtxRltY6YrhgJWfXDD0&m=_MuTFcgMcyrAbPUt83Z_jN_mjxJ0xkREe7_-DoBlwrk&s=Sqh14qpTd266jjhbpo2e8fo-gomkQ7ZeAbFjiKLI6hs&e=> > -- > Richard Spindler > PO Box 768 > South Yarra > Victoria 3141 > +61 400 117 860 > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>_______________________________________________ > msosug mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mexico.purplecow.org_m_listinfo_msosug&d=DwICAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=fgPSHuZXK315EaA-0TLW5FZPCtxRltY6YrhgJWfXDD0&m=_MuTFcgMcyrAbPUt83Z_jN_mjxJ0xkREe7_-DoBlwrk&s=Sqh14qpTd266jjhbpo2e8fo-gomkQ7ZeAbFjiKLI6hs&e= > > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mexico.purplecow.org_m_listinfo_msosug&d=DwICAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=fgPSHuZXK315EaA-0TLW5FZPCtxRltY6YrhgJWfXDD0&m=_MuTFcgMcyrAbPUt83Z_jN_mjxJ0xkREe7_-DoBlwrk&s=Sqh14qpTd266jjhbpo2e8fo-gomkQ7ZeAbFjiKLI6hs&e=>
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