Help! Patching Java JRE on Solaris 9
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From: ohaya on 3 Sep 2009 16:57 Hi, On the Solaris 9 (SPARC) systems that we're patching, we need to patch the JRE to 1.50 Update 20. I searched Sunsolve, and found patch #118666-22, and one of the people I worked with try to install it today, and said that it didn't install. According to what I was told: "it would not install because there was nothing to update. Apparently it is only JDK files and there is nothing in /opt/JDK - so it wouldn't update anything." That was the info that was conveyed to me by the person who ran the patchadd, and I've asked for the logs. In the meantime, I've been searching Sunsolve, and I couldn't find any JRE-only patch, and I've also spoke to Sun support on a ticket that I had opened with them. According to the support person, that 118666-22 patch should have worked, regardless of whether or not a JDK was installed on the machine. I've also checked Sun's Java website, thinking, that, at worst, we could install JRE 1.50 Update 20, but it looks like the latest 1.50 is Update 19. Can anyone help with this situation, or provide some info? Should that 118666-22 patch have worked? Thanks, Jim
From: John D Groenveld on 3 Sep 2009 17:29 In article <n5Wnm.136971$cf6.54616(a)newsfe16.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote: >I've also checked Sun's Java website, thinking, that, at worst, we could >install JRE 1.50 Update 20, but it looks like the latest 1.50 is Update 19. Sun is advertising JRE 5.0 Update 20, both packages and self-extracting executable, on the JDK5 download page: <URL:http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp> John groenveld(a)acm.org
From: ohaya on 3 Sep 2009 18:46 John D Groenveld wrote: > In article <n5Wnm.136971$cf6.54616(a)newsfe16.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote: > >>I've also checked Sun's Java website, thinking, that, at worst, we could >>install JRE 1.50 Update 20, but it looks like the latest 1.50 is Update 19. > > > Sun is advertising JRE 5.0 Update 20, both packages and > self-extracting executable, on the JDK5 download page: > <URL:http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp> > > John > groenveld(a)acm.org Hi John, I had been looking at: http://java.sun.com/products/archive/ so, thanks for the link. Jim
From: ohaya on 3 Sep 2009 18:53 ohaya wrote: > > > John D Groenveld wrote: > >> In article <n5Wnm.136971$cf6.54616(a)newsfe16.iad>, ohaya >> <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote: >> >>> I've also checked Sun's Java website, thinking, that, at worst, we >>> could install JRE 1.50 Update 20, but it looks like the latest 1.50 >>> is Update 19. >> >> >> >> Sun is advertising JRE 5.0 Update 20, both packages and >> self-extracting executable, on the JDK5 download page: >> <URL:http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp> >> >> John >> groenveld(a)acm.org > > > > Hi John, > > I had been looking at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/archive/ > > so, thanks for the link. > > Jim > Hi, I had to fill out a form to get a download link. After I did that, the linked page had two files: Java Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 20 jre-1_5_0_20-solaris-sparcv9.sh 8.79 MB Java Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 20 jre-1_5_0_20-solaris-sparc.sh 20.52 MB Do you have any idea what the difference between these two files? Thanks, Jim
From: ohaya on 3 Sep 2009 18:56
Drazen Kacar wrote: > ohaya wrote: > > >> "it would not install because there was nothing to update. Apparently >> it is only JDK files and there is nothing in /opt/JDK - so it wouldn't >> update anything." > > > There isn't supposed to be anything in /opt/JDK. Patch README is here: > > http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-118666-22-1 > > And it has the list of files it installs. They are under > /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0. > > It's possible that you don't have anything there, which means that Java > packages are not installed on the system (or the files were deleted, which > is possible, but unlikely). In that case you'd first have to install the > appropriate packages and then apply the patch. > > >> In the meantime, I've been searching Sunsolve, and I couldn't find any >> JRE-only patch, and I've also spoke to Sun support on a ticket that I >> had opened with them. According to the support person, that 118666-22 >> patch should have worked, regardless of whether or not a JDK was >> installed on the machine. > > > I don't think so. Patches patch one or more OS packages. If a package is > not installed, then the patch doesn't install files belonging to that > package. > Hi, Thanks. Re. the directory, I was just quoting what was sent to me, so maybe it was in /usr. Re. the last paragraph, I agree. I was kind of doubtful when he told me that :). Jim |