SUMMARY: Solaris 10 patch installation weirdness

From: Lars Hecking <lhecking_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 07:03:42 EDT
Lars Hecking writes:
>  I had to go and install patch 124208-01 as postfix stopped compiling.
> 
>  All this patch contains are header files. So, why on earth did this
>  creature of an updatemanager require a reboot ("patch will be installed
>  upon reboot")? This is mind boggling - I didn't expect Sun to go back
>  to before Windows 98.

 I received one response from Janis Klimowicz. Thanks!

| Instead of using updatemanager -- especially on machines that you don't 
| want to reboot, use smpatch instead:
| 
| # smpatch analyze
| # smpatch update -i <patch_number>
| 
| This will not avoid having to reboot for ALL patches, but will allow you to 
| install many patches without rebooting.
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