From: Richard Skelton on
Ceri Davies wrote:
> Another day, another dumb question from me.
>
> I had thought that I could get from Solaris 10 6/06 to Solaris 10 11/06
> (or equivalent functionality, at least) via patches. It seems not to be
> the case, since I don't have everything:
>
> bash-3.00# cat /etc/release
> Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
> Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> Assembled 09 June 2006
> bash-3.00# /usr/local/sbin/pca -xl
> Download xref-file to /var/sadm/pca/patchdiag.xref: done
> Using /var/sadm/pca/patchdiag.xref from Dec/20/06
> bash-3.00# zoneadm -z twilight detach
> usage: zoneadm help
> zoneadm [-z <zone>] list
> zoneadm -z <zone> <subcommand>
>
> Subcommands:
>
> help
> boot [-s]
> halt
> ready
> reboot
> list [-cipv]
> verify
> install
> uninstall [-F]
>
> Am I wrong? If not, what else do I need to do? Do I have to upgrade?
Yes
>
> Ceri
From: Tim Bradshaw on
Lion-O wrote:

> So; a 03/05 release with ZFS support, how do you like that? :-)

I think that's a very weird case, and I'm surprised they did that.
Normally you have to upgrade to get new features: patches will only fix
existing features.

--tim

From: Ceri Davies on
On 2006-12-21, Lion-O <nosp(a)m.catslair.org> wrote:
>> I had thought that I could get from Solaris 10 6/06 to Solaris 10 11/06
>> (or equivalent functionality, at least) via patches. It seems not to be
>> the case, since I don't have everything:
>>
>> bash-3.00# cat /etc/release
>> Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
>> Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>> Use is subject to license terms.
>> Assembled 09 June 2006
>
> Well, you assume wrong. I've got Solaris 10/x86 running for some time now and
> got myself a service contract (for $120/yr; get access to *everything* on
> SunSolve without the overhead of guided support (I can usually fix my own
> problems ;))) and this is happening on my system:
>
> magi:/home/peter $ cat /etc/release
> Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a X86
> Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> Assembled 22 January 2005
> magi:/home/peter $ man zfs | wc -l
> Reformatting page. Please Wait... done
> 1650

That's cool, but I definitely don't have the zone detach ability.

Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
From: Ceri Davies on
On 2006-12-21, Richard Skelton <Richard.Skelton(a)Infineon.com> wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>> Another day, another dumb question from me.
>>
>> I had thought that I could get from Solaris 10 6/06 to Solaris 10 11/06
>> (or equivalent functionality, at least) via patches. It seems not to be
>> the case, since I don't have everything:
>>
>> bash-3.00# cat /etc/release
>> Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
>> Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>> Use is subject to license terms.
>> Assembled 09 June 2006
>> bash-3.00# /usr/local/sbin/pca -xl
>> Download xref-file to /var/sadm/pca/patchdiag.xref: done
>> Using /var/sadm/pca/patchdiag.xref from Dec/20/06
>> bash-3.00# zoneadm -z twilight detach
>> usage: zoneadm help
>> zoneadm [-z <zone>] list
>> zoneadm -z <zone> <subcommand>
>>
>> Subcommands:
>>
>> help
>> boot [-s]
>> halt
>> ready
>> reboot
>> list [-cipv]
>> verify
>> install
>> uninstall [-F]
>>
>> Am I wrong? If not, what else do I need to do? Do I have to upgrade?

> Yes

OK, ta. I'm still a little confused re: the service contract stuff.

Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
From: Andreas Wacknitz on

"Ceri Davies" <ceri_usenet(a)submonkey.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:29zih.22421$n36.11857(a)newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> On 2006-12-21, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz(a)gmx.de> wrote:
>> Ceri Davies schrieb:
>>> Another day, another dumb question from me.
>>>
>>> I had thought that I could get from Solaris 10 6/06 to Solaris 10 11/06
>>> (or equivalent functionality, at least) via patches. It seems not to be
>>> the case, since I don't have everything:
>>>
>>> bash-3.00# cat /etc/release
>>> Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
>>> Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
>>> Use is subject to license terms.
>>> Assembled 09 June 2006
>>> bash-3.00# /usr/local/sbin/pca -xl
>>> Download xref-file to /var/sadm/pca/patchdiag.xref: done
>>> Using /var/sadm/pca/patchdiag.xref from Dec/20/06
>>> bash-3.00# zoneadm -z twilight detach
>>> usage: zoneadm help
>>> zoneadm [-z <zone>] list
>>> zoneadm -z <zone> <subcommand>
>>>
>>> Subcommands:
>>>
>>> help
>>> boot [-s]
>>> halt
>>> ready
>>> reboot
>>> list [-cipv]
>>> verify
>>> install
>>> uninstall [-F]
>>>
>>> Am I wrong? If not, what else do I need to do? Do I have to upgrade?
>>>
>>> Ceri
>> Without a service contract you'll only get security fixes and drivers
>> via patches. Thus either pay for a service contract or do a Live Upgrade
>> or an upgrade install.
>
> I have a service contract, which I thought was connected to the SunSolve
> login I'm using here, but apparently not. Don't service contract
> patches appear in patchdiag.xref too?
I don't have a service contract. Thus, I don't have real world experiences
with it.
As far as I remember Sun is advertising the additional patches as a
valueable plus for service contracts.
So either I am wrong or the patches needed for the new features are delayed.
Nethertheless they
should appear in patchdig.xref (sooner or later).
What tool are you using for patching your system? If you don't use patch
check advanced (pca) yet,
this would be worth a try.

Regards
Andreas
>
> Ceri
> --
> That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
> -- Moliere