Patching Solaris 8 ... what do use? smpatch is fundamentally broken

I tried the Sun recommended path:

On a Solaris 8 box (Ultra 60 SPARC):

Several patches were validated, and then...

# smpatch update
109881-02 cannot be validated.
com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProRuntimeException: Unexpected throwable
at com.sun.patchpro.cli.PatchServices.waitForThread(PatchServices.java:1284)
at com.sun.patchpro.cli.PatchServices.installPatches(PatchServices.java:1121)
at com.sun.patchpro.cli.PatchServices.main(PatchServices.java:510)
Caused by:
java.lang.Throwable: ERROR: Failed to validate the digital signature(s).
at com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel$InnerDownloadPatchThread.downloadPatchFailed(PatchProModel.java:2855)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.GroupPatchDownloader.dispatchFailedEvent(GroupPatchDownloader.java:384)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.GroupPatchDownloader.downloadPatchFailed(GroupPatchDownloader.java:335)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.dispatchFailedEvent(ServerPatchServiceProvider.java:2577)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.validatePatchBundle(ServerPatchServiceProvider.java:2196)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.requestDownload(ServerPatchServiceProvider.java:1780)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.performDownloadPatches(ServerPatchServiceProvider.java:1082)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.downloadPatches(ServerPatchServiceProvider.java:860)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxy.downloadPatches(PatchServerProxy.java:142)
at com.sun.patchpro.server.GroupPatchDownloader.downloadPatches(GroupPatchDownloader.java:124)
at com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel.performPatchDownload(PatchProModel.java:1932)
at com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProStateMachine$10.run(PatchProStateMachine.java:526)
at com.sun.patchpro.util.State.run(State.java:266)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)


What's the correct (working) way to apply patches? Do I have to just get the huge
latest patch cluster?

I there any way to get a working patch update mechanism for Solaris 8?
.

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