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Operating Systems Solaris Patching Post 302314061 by sbk1972 on Thursday 7th of May 2009 09:57:18 AM
Old 05-07-2009
Patching
Hi all

Ive got 12 odd sun servers, running solars 8, 9 and soon 10. Have to admit I havent patched for years. Infact the last time I did patch a load of servers, sun provided you will a small script which would review the current patch levels, create a xml file that you would use on sunsolve to create you a bundle of relative patches. This was back in 2002.

So, what do I do now ?? Looking at the kernel patch levels, most of these servers are well out of date.

Whats the correct method to use now to patch ? Do I just go onto sunsolve, download the latest kernel bundle for solaris 8 and install ?

Or do I try and taylor a patch bundle for my individual installation ??

Do Sun provide a small script to help me ?

Cheers

SBK
 

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cdbs-edit-patch

CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)						CDBS Documentation						CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch

SYNOPSIS

       cdbs-edit-patch patchname

DESCRIPTION

       cdbs-edit-patch	creates  or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system.	For more information about CDBS please see
       the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.

       When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
       icographic  order,  and	spawn  an  interactive shell for the developer.  The developer can then edit files in this working tree.  When the
       developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made.  To abort the process from the inter-
       active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.

       When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created.  As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
       will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic  order.   When  the  shell	is
       quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.

AUTHOR

       CDBS  was  written  by Colin Walters and others.  cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt.  This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
       traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)

Debian								    5 Feb 2006							CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
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