I'll forgo Larry's nuts :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B6jgkcANRE#t=05m01s
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 9:27 PM, Ben Couldrey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]> >> 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. >> *************************************************************** >> _______________________________________________ >> msosug mailing list >> [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] > _______________________________________________ > msosug mailing list > [email protected] > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mexico. > purplecow.org_m_listinfo_msosug&d=DwICAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIr > MUB65eapI_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]
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