Dear all, regards,

I was wondering the following regarding some patches CA recommends to have
installed with the OS (Solaris) previous to install Spectrum.

One of my providers is configuring 2 Solaris Servers and there are patches
recommended by CA, that are obsoletes and are replaced by new ones from the
provider (SUN), read below the patch description.

Patches in RED: recommended by CA

Patches in BLUE: latest patches from SUN

- 117461-04 Linker --> is from July 2005 and was replaced by patch 118833-36

- 119963-04 SunOS 5.10: Shared library patch for C++ --> is from November
2005 and it was replaced by patch 119963-12 (Nov.2008)

- 119042-09 SunOS 5.10: usr/sbin/svccfg patch (required by 118833-36)

- 119059 verify that patch version do not exceed 119059-20.
If a superior version than 119059-20 is installed, Solaris 10 must be
reinstalled without the version
that exceeds patch level 119059-20 in order to execute and generate SRM
Reports.

--> The patch 119059-20 is from January 2007 and the patch 119059-21 is from
February 2007
all versions of Solaris 10 since 2007 come with the latest update for this
patch (119059).
Latest version of this patch is 119059-46 from December 2008.

My question is:  is it safe to install these latest patches, instead of the
ones recommended by CA? or is a must to install these obsolete patches?

Any ideas, or feedback from someone that have installed Solaris using the
latest OS patches are welcome.

Regards
-- 
Eng. Edgar Parra

MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CA's Spectrum Solutions Engineer

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