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From: Ceri Davies on 21 Dec 2006 11:35
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
--
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-- Moliere
From: gerryt on 21 Dec 2006 11:41

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.

I read somewhere that patches do not equate to a maintenence upgrade...
Some stuff simply just get added - or removed - from mu to mu
Then there is the HW update releases. Another variant : >
To get mu3 to have to upgrade or do a freh install I think

From: Andreas Wacknitz on 21 Dec 2006 11:49
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.

Regards
Andreas
From: Ceri Davies on 21 Dec 2006 12:05
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?

Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
From: Lion-O on 21 Dec 2006 12:09
> 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

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

For some reason /etc/release isn't changed so you'll remain on that same
version while the patches allow you to update your system with new features and
security updates. I like this development since this once again shows you that
you can't judge a Unix system by its appearances. So; running 3/5 doesn't
automaticly imply that it doesn't support ZFS (the only new feature I can think
of) perse.

Hope this helps.

--
Groetjes, Peter

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