I have recently installed solaris 10 and things were going great until i tried to change a driver file nf to add my dat 72 tape drive. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. Patch solaris 10 wanboot miniroot image lildude howtopatchsolaris10wanbootminirootimage 20070710t16. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Solaris add install new software packages nixcraft. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 eli. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by gpatch.
With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. Patches are not necessarily applied in chronological order. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remote system is another solaris10 zone, the patching operation works correctly. Patch management for solaris 10 server pascal kreyeroracle may 12, 2014 11. Only 5 patches is very, very suspicious, as darren mentioned. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. I would reinstall solaris 10 1106 from scratch, or wait a few months until the next sol 10 version comes out. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. It is also important to know whether the solaris kernel you are patching is 32 or 64bit. Specifics the backout directory for a patch to be removed so that the saved files could be restored. However due to various issues with solaris 10 releases, patching. Before upgrading, you must install the solaris live upgrade packages from the release to which you are upgrading. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets.
If using solaris 9 404, the wanboot client must have 256mb memory or higher. However, since oracle took over, in my view there has been a loss of interest in small to. Nfs or downloading from internet and then add it to system, or from existing location such as varspoolpkg directory if frequently required packages are copied to this location. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris.
Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches to install, but installation would have to be done manually. Chapter 25 about packages and patches on a solaris system. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Please view the package matrix to see which packages are supported on each platform. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. This can be used from solaris 9 to solaris 10 or solaris 10 update x to update y. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware.
Wikis apply the wisdom of crowds to generating information for users interested in a particular subject. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. The idea of upgrading and patching has prompted me to make sure i can do this on a live system. So a decision was made to allow new driver support to ship in solaris update releases but for solaris to compete successfully against other operating systems, a gap of ca. See below for an easy way to determine whether your solaris system uses a compressed miniroot. An alternative method of patching solaris 11 endpoints is to use the install packages by using pkg task. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository the. The solaris operating system uses a compressed miniroot. However, if the remote system is a miniroot or an oracle solaris 10 system that is not a solaris10 zone, the operation will produce undefined results.
Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones. The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. It didnt like something and will now not load the kernel. Patching source code to build a solaris 10 package youtube. Its a wonder feature solaris has for updating to latest solaris or applying recommended patching without much downtime. This restriction is removed in the solaris 807 release. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. On the day of writing, the newest version of solaris 10 is u11 1 and cluster for solaris 10 is 3. The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Packages advantages, such as consistency and standardization are quite obvious. Solaris add install new software packages last updated february 1, 2005 in categories news package can be install from cdrom, network i. If you are using solaris 10 wanboot, wanboot client must have 512mb memory or higher. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. Mandatory oracle solaris 10 os patches and packages sparc. Wanboot support actually started in solaris 9 1203. But you cant upgrade the inactive be to solaris 10 as we desire. This is because wanboot actually loads a miniroot to memory, and solaris 10 miniroot is much larger than solaris 9.
Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Chapter 26 adding and removing packages and patches on a. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10. Removes the patch from the packages in the current zone only. Read how to determine if the solaris kernel is 32 or 64bit for more information.
After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all. The compressed miniroot was adopted first in solaris for x86 and then in solaris for sparc over the course of solaris 10 update releases. This chapter has been rewritten since solaris 10, to document the current behavior of the package and patch commands on a system with installed nonglobal zones. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. This example explains how to upgrade a solaris 10 910 system to the solaris 10 1 release. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. Cpqary3 driver on solaris 10 as an aside, due to not being updated, the drivers may not install fully to the miniroot in that they kick errors about dependencies on packages that are not installed in the miniroot, nor are they installable into the miniroot.
Mandatory oracle solaris 10 os patches and packages sparc m7 if you install the oracle solaris 10 os in a guest domain, you must also install additional patches and in some cases, a patch bundle. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. If you are patching a package that was added by using the pkgadd command with the g option, the package must be patched by using the patchadd command with the g option.
Enter a program name, such as, gcc, or a keyword like editor. Well, our solaris x86 vms has the following packages. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Packaging a piece of software that wont build out of the box on solaris 10.
Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. New capabilities are added to the upgrade tools, so installing the new packages from the target release is important. You can search all wikis, start a wiki, and view the wikis you own, the wikis you interact with as an editor or reader, and the wikis you follow. The booting miniroot should be unpacked to a subdirectory, not a zfs dataset. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. Unzip the solaris recommended patch cluster file in vartmp. Assume that the setup is according to custom jumpstart framework setup. This task enables you to deploy individual packages or all the packages for an sru. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. I need to get into a miniroot session to change the file. Important it can be considered best practice to patch the boot miniroot as soon as possible. This version of the os is supported only in guest domains. Oracle solaris 11 uses a completely new approach for package management.
When possible, we may be able to build missing packages upon request for a fee. Solaris live upgrading or updating to latest solaris patches using live upgrade method. Patches are packages, packages live in in a directory tree for each package which is here. For more information, see installing packages on solaris 11. It is a minimal bootable root file system that is present on the solaris installation media. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in. When i installed sol 10 1106 from dvd, many patches were included with the distribution, so it is likely that your patch database has been corrupted.
Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Now with image packaging system ips a system administrator can install, update and search packages from local or remote repository. Patching a compressed miniroot the solaris operating system uses a compressed miniroot. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle.