Hi On 10/27/05 07:44, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
As far as I have read ( I don't know where I have read it) if I ever use BFU I can't use system update tools and I can't use Sun Update Connection to update my system. Is that true?
Solaris Express does not have any patches at all. You can apply patches to so-called unbundled products - software that is not part of the Solaris distribution itself - but there are no released patches for Solaris Express. That's because Express is part of the development release train. Sun's development model is such that all fixes (security or otherwise) are applied first to the development releases (if applicable there) and then to the sustaining releases (currently Solaris 10 and older). So provided you don't bfu back to a a gate build from ages ago you don't lose any security fixes etc. If you're BFU'ing over a Solaris 10 install (works, but since BFU only updates the ON components you get a bit of a mismatched system) then, yes, you'll no longer be able to apply Solaris patches. BFU dumps a number of cpio archives over your installed software without updating the package database - when you come to try and patch it is going to complain of a zillion checksum mismatches. Even forcing the patch on is likely going to lead to incompatabilities as the patch may have been built from a tree of signifcantly different vintage to the BFU.
If yes what can we use to update system to patch for example against security threats?
I think the above answers this - running recent Express builds and only BFU'ing forwards in time gets you all fixes. Cheers Gavin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
