SUMMARY: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

Thank you Dave Foster, Andrew J. Caines, Hichael Morton, Alex Theodore,
and Steve B. for your responces.

For now I will do what I have been doing:  Download the entire cluster,
diff the patch_order against the last installed one, and install with
resulting patch_order.  I could skip the diff and install with its
patch_order intact; the installed patches wont install, anyway;)

The alternative is to get an account at Sunsolve to get their patchdiag
and other utilities to automate the process.  Andrew's custom_cluster
URL is broken, so I could not check it out;(

Here is the original message; the five responses follow:

---------- Original message ----------
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:58:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

Hi Folks,

I apply the latest Recommended Patch Cluster to my Spark box periodically;
however, every time I download the entire cluster, ~75 MB, for just a few
new patches from:

  http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access

Is there a "Recommended Patch Cluster *Update*", or something that I can
download only what has been added since my last download?

Best regards,

Joe
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:05:14 -0800 (PST)
From: David Foster <foster@dim.ucsd.edu>
To: jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us
Subject: Re: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

There are some patch utilities like patchdiag at SunSolve that
can check your system for outstanding patches and download *those*,
check those out.

Dave Foster

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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 16:34:54 -0500
From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

Joe,

> Is there a "Recommended Patch Cluster *Update*", or something that I can
> download only what has been added since my last download?

Nope, but you can run my custom_cluster[1] script on the cluster tarball
to save yourself a lot of time by eliminating applied patches. Just put
the tarball in /var/tmp (or $BaseDir) and run it.


[1] http://halplant.com:88/software/Solaris/scripts/custom_cluster

-Andrew-
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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:42:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Hichael Morton <mh1272@yahoo.com>
To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

at sunsolve, you can download patches individually.  documentation
gives the patches in the recommended list and can compare it to what
you have already installed and just download the ones you need.

(with multiple machine, i still download the new recommended patch and
install all of them.  the install program will ignore the patches
already installed and just install the needed patches.  to me, this is
less work and aggravation.  if you have the time and inclination, you
can do all this "by hand".

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Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 23:40:56 -0500
From: Alex Theodore <alex@fuzzycheese.com>
To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

If you have a sunsolve account you may be able to downoad and use
patchdiag tool.  It will download a patchlist and compare it to what you
have installed on your system thus creating a list of 'new' suggested
patches for your system.  You could parse this list and create a .netrc
file for use with ftp so that you can download all the new files, etc.. I
have done that type of thing in the past and it has worked very well.

Best regards,

  Alex Theodore

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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:28:26 -0500 (EST)
From: sun@bagdon.com
To: Joe R. Jah <jjah@sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Updading Recommended Patch Cluster

you could see if you can download just the patch-order file, then diff
against showrev-p (highest rev loaded), see if the patch-order rev is
higher, make a list of patches to download, then just download those
patches.

But something that Sun would offer? Not to my knowledge.

Steve B.
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