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Operating Systems Solaris Lifecycle patching Post 302921054 by l8nite00 on Tuesday 14th of October 2014 01:51:42 PM
Old 10-14-2014
This is definitely not the route to go. However, here is another thought to think about.

This all depends on the time it takes you to roll your patches through your environment.

We have a 4 environment development strategy.
Dev - Test - QA (PreProd) - Prod

We actually patch our preprod environment first then we roll to prod, dev, test.

I know, sounds a little strange to do it this way but our development cycle is fairly rapid and our patching schedule is not as fast, so we have ran into issues with developing code on a newly patched DEV machine that wouldn't run in the other environments until they got patched. So we found that we patch the preprod systems first, if nothing breaks then roll it into prod, if it does break back out the patch or use the prod image to recover it.

Most of the time code developed on an OS with older patches ran just fine on the OS that is up-to-date on patches. I think I only had 2 instances in 5 years where that didn't happen and I believe that was because of java and a path change.
 

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SPLITDIFF(1)							     Man pages							      SPLITDIFF(1)

NAME
splitdiff - separate out incremental patches SYNOPSIS
splitdiff [-a] [-d] [-p n] [-E] [file] splitdiff {[--help] | [--version]} DESCRIPTION
If you have a patch file composed of several incremental patches, you can use splitdiff to separate them out. You may want to do this in preparation for re-combining them with combinediff(1). The effect of running splitdiff is to separate its input into a set of output files, with no output file patching the same file more than once. OPTIONS
-a Split out every single file-level patch. -d Create file names such as a_b.c.patch for a patch that modifies a/b.c. -p n Strip the first n components of the pathname to aid comparisons. -E Don't use .patch filename extension when writing output files. --help Display a short usage message. --version Display the version number of splitdiff. SEE ALSO
combinediff(1), lsdiff(1) AUTHOR
Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> Package maintainer patchutils 25 May 2011 SPLITDIFF(1)
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