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06-06-2003

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The patch cluster is for recommended and security patches. Other issues not covered by these patches require you to patch with individual patches. This does not mean you go out and try to put every patch Sun puts out on your system. Most of the time if you are putting on a patch, it's because you have a problem that the patch is suppose to fix.

If you don't have the problem, don't use the patch - it may actually break your system. The only one you should keep up to date is the recommended and security patch cluster.

And if there are dependent patches that are required by the patch cluster, you need to put those on first. If you notice there is always a statement about these - it's up to you to know and follow all directions. Usually if our servers will be patched with the R&S patch cluster, it's done on test servers first, development servers second, and then rolled to production so any problems will hopefully show up before production is hit.

One other thing, if you have a Sun contract and you call in about a problem, one of the first things they say is "What is the patch level?". Most of the time their first line of defense is to have you patch the system (with the latest patch cluster) and then call back in if you still see the problem. There are times (many times) that this is a waste of time in trying to solve the problem.

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stg-series

STG-SERIES(1)							   StGit Manual 						     STG-SERIES(1)

NAME

       stg-series - Print the patch series

SYNOPSIS

       stg series [options] [<patch-range>]

DESCRIPTION

       Show all the patches in the series, or just those in the given range, ordered from top to bottom.

       The applied patches are prefixed with a + (except the current patch, which is prefixed with a >), the unapplied patches with a -, and the
       hidden patches with a !.

       Empty patches are prefixed with a 0.

OPTIONS

       -b BRANCH, --branch BRANCH
	   Use BRANCH instead of the default branch.

       -a, --all
	   Show all patches, including the hidden ones.

       -A, --applied
	   Show the applied patches only.

       -U, --unapplied
	   Show the unapplied patches only.

       -H, --hidden
	   Show the hidden patches only.

       -m BRANCH, --missing BRANCH
	   Show patches in BRANCH missing in current.

       -c, --count
	   Print the number of patches in the series.

       -d, --description
	   Show a short description for each patch.

       --author
	   Show the author name for each patch.

       -e, --empty
	   Before the +, >, -, and ! prefixes, print a column that contains either 0 (for empty patches) or a space (for non-empty patches).

       --showbranch
	   Append the branch name to the listed patches.

       --noprefix
	   Do not show the patch status prefix.

       -s, --short
	   List just the patches around the topmost patch.

STGIT

       Part of the StGit suite - see linkman:stg[1]

StGit								    03/13/2012							     STG-SERIES(1)