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20060928 Thursday September 28, 2006

Sun Studio and patchadd -G

Because Sun Studio 11 wasn't very zone savvy, we decided to install it with the -G option so that it always installed in a global zone. Unfortunately the advanced patch tools like updatemanager and smpatch don't deal very well with patches to products that were installed with -G. (see bug 6374972, visible on bugs.opensolaris.org). So to work around that, you have to install the patches using the patchadd command for now. If the Solaris group fixes 6374972 then I think the problem would go away. Of course, there is also a bug filed for Sun Studio to be zone-savvy and support installing into whatever zone the user wants. Fixing that bug (bug 6447164, visible on bugs.sun.com) might also result in better cooperation with updatemanager and smpatch.

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Sep 28 2006, 02:51:20 PM PDT ) - Permalink - -

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