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I am new in SUN. I know SUN have the patch called 8_Recommended and it is
accumulative. As and when, SUN will have a new patch level.
What is the command to know my machine is at what level? I have read some
newsgroup archives, "showrev -p" will show me the patch number and the
revision number, but I don't know how updated is my 8_Recommended level. Any
idea? Thanks in advance.

"Rickie" <rickie_wong@hotmail.com> writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|I am new in SUN. I know SUN have the patch called 8_Recommended and it is

That is a collection of patches - if you read the README file you'll see
a list of each patch included. Each patch id is in the form XXXXXX-YY
where XXXXXX is the patch id and YY is the revision. You can compare
each one against the revision shown in "showrev -p" output. (Or you can
use one of the tools from the SunSolve website like PatchDiag or
PatchPro to make this easier and more automated.)

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> |I am new in SUN. I know SUN have the patch called 8_Recommended and it is
>
> That is a collection of patches - if you read the README file you'll see
> a list of each patch included. Each patch id is in the form XXXXXX-YY
> where XXXXXX is the patch id and YY is the revision. You can compare
> each one against the revision shown in "showrev -p" output. (Or you can
> use one of the tools from the SunSolve website like PatchDiag or
> PatchPro to make this easier and more automated.)

I wrote a script to compare the latest recommended patch bundle to the
current system to optimize installation time. If you're close to
current on the patch bundle, it takes a while for the system to
recognize that you have most of the patches loaded. This script simply
trims the patch_order file by dropping any patches that are currently
listed in "showrev -p". Installation of the patch cluster would go
like:

cd /tmp
unzip .../8_Recommended.zip
cd 8_Recommended
..../filter_patches
../install_cluster
[Reboot]

Steve

filter_patches:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Filter the patch_order files from a Recommended patch bundle to
# not try to install patches that are already installed. This will
# speed up the install since it takes so long for install_cluster
# to error out on a patch that is already installed on the system.

$ENV{PATH}="/usr/bin";
#
# First build a table of all the latest patch rev on the system
#
open (SHOWREV, "showrev -p|");
while (<SHOWREV>) {
chop;
$patch = (split)[1];

($patchNum, $rev) = split(/-/, $patch);

if ($rev > $installedRev{$patchNum}) {
$installedRev{$patchNum} = $rev;
}
}
close (SHOWREV);

open (PATCHLIST, "patch_order");
open (NEWLIST, ">patch_order.new");
while ($patch = <PATCHLIST>) {
chop ($patch);

($patchNum, $rev) = split(/-/, $patch);
if ($installedRev{$patchNum} < $rev) {
print NEWLIST "$patch\n";
}
}
close (PATCHLIST);
close (NEWLIST);
rename ("patch_order", "patch_order.orig");
rename ("patch_order.new", "patch_order");