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

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:56:00 -0600
> Dan Foster <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>You could try Martin Paul's 'pca' utility at:
>>
>> http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
>>
>>It is *extremely* impressive looking. He's really put a lot of work
>>into it, and done it very well.
>>
>
> I second that. A truly excellent program that takes the sting out of
> patching.
>

Well.. I'm sold (big thanks). Shame Sun can't seem to manage such a tool.

Is there a reason why Sun doesn't seem to want you to patch
your systems?
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