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Operating Systems Solaris Lifecycle patching Post 302904777 by mse on Friday 6th of June 2014 10:48:43 AM
Old 06-06-2014
Peasant, thank you very much for the response.

Unfortunately for us, our infrastructure group is trying to convince us that no one uses a local repository (unless they have to because there servers do not have access to pull them directly). Currently the way our systems (Unix and Linux) are patched is every system pulls whatever is available at the time that they are patched. So if we have a 30 day soak for a set of patches that were applied to dev before applying the patches to qa; it is likely that qa will get patches that were never applied in dev... and so on for production. This scares me (knowing that a single library change can have disastrous effects on a system). I have not even been able to convince them that I need the same version of gcc across an environment. (I.e. 4.1.2 20080704 on one box and 4.4.7 20120313 on another).

Your comments (and any others that might be willing to reply) are what I need to go to them and so no; we cannot keep doing things this way. It is a hard battle because they are seen by management as the expert in their area so if they disagree with us, they usually win. It is forums like this (and experts like yourself) that I have to rely on to make sure that what we are being told id accurate.

I thank you very much for being there and being willing to take a moment of your time to offer your advice and opinions.

Mark
 

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