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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix, Linux Patches Post 302160316 by stevie_velvet on Monday 21st of January 2008 02:24:07 PM
Old 01-21-2008
There are several flavours of UNIX & Linux (hundres for each version) so it's not possible to go into details

Solaris UNIX - Customers are alerted via email if they are members of Sunsolve or via a valid Support Contract, Patches can be deployed manually or automatically via the inb-built patch manager software

Ubuntu LINUX -Customers are alerted via email if they are members of a valid Support Contract, Patches can be deployed manually or automatically via the in-built patch manager software - Update Manager

Sounds like a question for Research material for a Degree Assignment, but -------------------------------------------------------------------
~ stevie
Solaris SCSA (v8)
Microsoft MCP
Ubuntu & Fedora on-the-way
 

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
	      details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

DEBIAN
								 Debian Utilities						     WHAT-PATCH(1)
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