Re: Solaris patch madness

On Nov 26, 12:39 pm, lahuman9 <lahum...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree with you. I think that Solaris 10 was released WAY too early,
and
they should have waited until all the features had stabilized.

Well, I think there's a choice. Either you put a feature in a
release, or you punt it until the next. Unfortunately Sun had
trumpeted a whole lot of stuff for 10 (specifically ZFS) which was not
ready at FCS. Punting it until 11, while technically the right thing
to do, would have been a marketing disaster (for which read: it would
have required senior people to make brave decisions which shareholders
would not have understood, and you know how likely that is).

But in some counterfactual world where technical decisions counted,
we'd now be looking at 11u1 which would have ZFS etc.

But, I don't see how this argument applies if the current recommended
patch
releases continue, but there is a separate patch bundle (call it
"feature pack",
"maintenance update", "technology level", whatever) that brings your
current
Solaris 10 install up to exactly Solaris 10 update 1/2/3/4. It would
install/uninstall
any necessary patches/packages/etc and do all the work to make it as
if you had
done an upgrade install, but works on a running system (in single user
mode).
Or support veritas zone roots in LU, or upgrade installs...

I think we want the same thing, which is for upgrade to work
properly. I almost fell off my chair when I realised that in many
cases the prerequisites for LU *include kernel patches* which, um,
require reboots: someone at Sun doesn't really understand their
customers' requirements very well.

.

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