| SunRay gurus,
I'm in the process of attempting to bring up SunRay server on a Sun x4150. The machine is now running Solaris 10 Update 9. I've been using a script called pca to do patching on SPARC and x86 Solaris for years. I used pca to update all the patches on Solaris. I then installed SunRay 5.1. I then ran pca again to see if there were patches for it. (that works on an old SPARC SunRay installation of 3.1). pca didn't list any patches. However, I found out that there were patches but only by downloading a 5.1.2 through MOS. Funny that the current 5.1.2 SunRay on x86 patches aren't listed in the patchdiag.xref that Oracle provides.
For those not familiar with pca (for Solaris), see:
A very nice utility that Sun used to recommend. I also found it to work when various Sun provided patching tools didn't do a very good job.
I'm not sure why Oracle doesn't offer SunRay patches through the old way (6-2 patchid as below) as it makes it easier for those of us who are part time sysadmins trying to keep systems up-to-date (and paying for the support agreements to do so).
PCA will ask about a MOS user's support levels:
[x4150 : /export/x4150/patch : 2 ] ./pca --supplevel Determining MOS Support Levels
SW: Existing Oracle software and Sun middleware OS: Solaris patches and updates PUB: Oracle Open Office/StarOffice and patch utilities FMW: Firmware, drivers, bios, system controller software, ALOM/ILOM, diagnostics
Thanks,
Stuart Begin forwarded message: Date: March 29, 2011 8:27:06 AM MST
Subject: Re: [pca] SunRay (x86) patches don't show if not installed
Hi Martin/All,
Martin Paul wrote:
Stuart
F. Biggar wrote:
I guess I could use some pointers or does PCA
not work with SunRay due to the
way Oracle does patches for it? It looks to me like the current cross
reference file doesn't have appropriate info for SunRay on x86 Solaris
10?
That's new to me, but as Richard says - the current revisions of the
Sun Ray Server Software patches are not listed in patchdiag.xref. This
is valid for both SPARC and x86 (and Linux, so this is not an x86-only
issue).
The patchdiag.xref has revision 05 of 140993/140994/140995, while the
latest revision for all these patches is 07, as listed on:
http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/Latest_News
The current patches for the Sun Ray Data Store
(145212-02/145213-02/145214-02) are completely absent from
patchdiag.xref.
I have seen no notification of any change in the Sun Ray patch policy,
and I see no technical reason why the patches shouldn't be available
like all other patches, so I hope it's just an accident. Maybe Don can
find out?
I don't know anything about patches 145212-02/145213-02/145214-02 or
140993-07/140994-07/140995-07.
These patches have not been released through my team (or the standard
Oracle release process for 6-2 format patches).
This is the reason they are not in patchdiag.xref.
In addition, any download from MOS for which the patch number is not
given as a standard Sun 6-2 patchid does not go through my team and so
does not end up in the patchdiag.xref file.
It looks like patches 140993-07/140994-07/140995-07 were freshbitted
into the latest release image and were never released as standalone
patches through our process...
HTH,
-Don
Martin.
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Don O'Malley
Manager,Patch System Test
Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware
East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland
Phone: +353 1 8199764
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