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Preferred order to apply Solaris patches

Posted in 2016

Topics: High Availability & Replication, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

STEVEN BLACK — — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Current env: SunOS adagio 5.10 Generic_150400-40 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.FC6W2 DB instances: prod, hdr secondary, rss What is the preferred order to apply Solaris patches? Does it matter? We've applied the Solaris patches to some UAT servers and no problems. Thanks, Steve

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DAVID GROVE — — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Assuming the context is the quarterly R&S patchset, and at the risk of being the "blind leading the blind", I would offer that we have always relied on the Sun (I have a hard time typing Oracle) patch utility's ordering of applying the patches. Never had any problem with respect to install order. If I misunderstood the question, I apologize and withdraw the comment. DG

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