Paul B. Henson wrote:
On a currently open support request, Sun is complaining that the patches on
our server are way out of date and we should install the recommended patch
cluster.
...
A number of the patches they indicate should be installed do not appear to
be marked as recommended in the patchdiag.xref (my current one is dated
Oct/14/09), including for example:
ALERT: 140789 missing (current -01): SunOS 5.10_x86: nfsd, nfs4cbd, lockd patch
ALERT: 140388 missing (current -01): SunOS 5.10_x86: statd patch
ALERT: 141933 missing (current -02): SunOS 5.10_x86: unshare patch
Funny. When looking at the list of patches included in the current
"Solaris 10 x86 Recommended Patch Cluster" (Oct 14 2009) you'll see that
none of these patches are included in the cluster:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=10_x86_Recommended.README
So installing the cluster won't make any difference, as far as these
patches are concerned.
Has anyone compared the contents of the recommended patch cluster to the
patchdiag file lately?
Me, now :) I made two lists for Solaris 10 SPARC, one of them the sorted
list of included patches taken from the cluster README, the other one
created with:
pca --noheader -l allr --format '%p-%c %y' | sort
I compared them, and after sorting out those which don't apply to my
system, and those which were obsoleted recently (it's not the best time
to do the comparison, as with U8 a lot of patches are obsoleted), I
concluded that the lists are essentially the same. So for this example,
installing the "missingr" patches with pca will give you the same patch
state as installing the Recommended Patch Cluster.
> I recall reading in the past occurrences where they were not the same.
Yes, that's right. Actually, I'm not sure whether it's really guaranteed
that the patches with an "R" flag in patchdiag.xref are the same set as
those included in the Recommended Patch Clusters. Of course this would
make a lot of sense ..
Martin.
