Re: Sunsolve site removes the Solaris 9 MU4 download for Sparc .. ?

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/06/03


Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 12:55:30 -0500

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 10:33:33 -0700, "Michael Vilain <vilai wrote:

> Perhaps someone can explain what's the difference between the MU bundle
> I get here or the <version>_Recommended.{zip,tar.gz} file that's on the
> SunSolve site. Near as I can tell, the MU, once released doesn't change
> while the "Recommended" bundle is updated on a schedule.

The MU patches your older version to bring it up to the spec of the latest
release, generally without adding any new features. Latest one I applied
was MU7 for Solaris 8 x86 which is over 140MB in zipped form and has about
344 patches in it.

> Is there some reason to choose one over the other?

Not the same. Do the MU, then apply the latest patch cluster.



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