Laurent Blume wrote:
Yes, the lack of dependency is kind of surprising. Is there some other
special handling of them in PCA or Sun patching tools to ensure they are
applied in the correct order if needed?
125555/125556 are not handled in a special way in PCA. I do sort the patch
utility patches to the top of the list, because the install_cluster does the
same, but I'm not otherwise messing with patch dependencies.
As for Sun/Oracle: They seem to strongly encourage the use of patch clusters
only. Gerry Haskins writes:
As discussed in the
http://blogs.sun.com/patch/entry/solaris_10_recommended_patching_strategy
which I published last week, we're really trying to encourage customers to
move away from selecting unique patch combinations and to instead use the
Solaris OS patch clusters and patch bundles as the core of your patching
strategy.
Maybe I shouldn't say this, but it's obvious anyway: Oracle doesn't want you to
use PCA for patching. But I can live with that :)
Martin.
