Re: [pca] pca Digest, Vol 19, Issue 20

[Don O'Malley]

Hi, If you are planning to install patches on an alternate boot environment should should first ensure that you have the minimum requirements on the active boot environment met first. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-206844-1 outlines the requirements for using Live Upgrade (i.e. patching an alternate boot environment). Best, -Don Rajiv Gunja wrote: Techie, Those patches are just guide lines. PCA will download and install those patches on your LU ABE without issues. Some of the patches SUN have added in that list, example 120011-14 is an obsoleted patch and LU will not install it. But PCA has built in logic to install it last year when SUN created this cyclic redundent obsoleted patches.   You do not need to install these patches to make LU work. All you need is a LU packages(SUNWluu, SUNWlur and SUNWlucfg) from U6 DVD and one of their latest patches 121430-35 or revision 37 if you do not mind the latest and greatest from SUN.   Another note about 119254-67, the 1st patch in that list, it is a patch utility patch and should always be installed before any patching process.   I have tested LU and have been using LU on all versions of Solaris 10 (U1 to U5) and I just let PCA install patches on the ABE.   119254-66 and later revisions supports multiple patching or parallel patching of Zones. So if you have zones, you might want to look into the readme of that patch and change the values in /etc/patch/pdo.conf   With the SUN recomended method you will need to reboot your server twice, once after installing the pre-requisites. By using PCA, you can install all the patches in 1 shot, then reboot to the newly patched ABE.   Let me know if you need more details as we use this on all our dev and prod server at our office.   -GGR -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com 2009/8/21 Martin Paul <mar...@par.univie.ac.at> Techie wrote: Will the  pca -y -d -a -t 4 command download every patch? Or do i specify the patches i want? It will download all missing patches by default, just like "pca -si" will install all missing patches by default. But you can specify a list of patches both with the "pca -d" and the "pca -si" command to download or install only a subset of patches. Martin.