I have looked at SunSolve and found the following:

http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/hosted/#system

"Sun Update Connection - System is currently available for Solaris 10
systems only."

I'd prefer a commandline method to update Solaris 9 12/03 to Solaris 9
9/05. Something similar to Linux's yum would be nice.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
John

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:29:35 -0600
John <sun_powered@cmaaccess.com> wrote:

> I'd prefer a commandline method to update Solaris 9 12/03 to Solaris
> 9 9/05. Something similar to Linux's yum would be nice.

You're looking for pca:

http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/


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Stefaan A Eeckels
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On 2006-11-17 13:02:26 +0000, Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@ecc.lu> said:

> You're looking for pca:
>
> http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/

I don't think he is. I don't think you can (yet?) do an on-the-fly
upgrade between releases (even updates of the same release) of Solaris.
You can use liveupgrade if you have spare disk, and you can certainly
do it all from the command line, but you can't drift from one to the
other by patches.

(And actually, I don't think you can do that with yum either: you
couldn't go from FC2 to FC3 with yum, say, could you. Debianoid
systems can do something like this (obviously with a reboot in there
somewhere if critical things change).)

--tim

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:04:02 +0000
Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:

> On 2006-11-17 13:02:26 +0000, Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@ecc.lu>
> said:
>
> > You're looking for pca:
> >
> > http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
>
> I don't think he is. I don't think you can (yet?) do an on-the-fly
> upgrade between releases (even updates of the same release) of
> Solaris. You can use liveupgrade if you have spare disk, and you can
> certainly do it all from the command line, but you can't drift from
> one to the other by patches.
>
> (And actually, I don't think you can do that with yum either: you
> couldn't go from FC2 to FC3 with yum, say, could you.

I don't think you can. Fedora sucks boulders through straws anyway.

> Debianoid
> systems can do something like this (obviously with a reboot in there
> somewhere if critical things change).)

I pointed the OP to pca because it's equivalent to SUC and runs on
Solaris 9. In the case of Solaris 10 both pca and SUC will install
patches that add functionality (e.g. my S10 01/06 machine acquired ZFS
through SUC). I do have a service contract though.

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On 2006-11-17 23:41:23 +0000, Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@ecc.lu> said:
>
> I don't think you can. Fedora sucks boulders through straws anyway.

We're just about to replace our FC5 (?) machine with Solaris 10/x86, as
it refuses to stay up for more than about a day (FC3 was fine).

> I pointed the OP to pca because it's equivalent to SUC and runs on
> Solaris 9. In the case of Solaris 10 both pca and SUC will install
> patches that add functionality (e.g. my S10 01/06 machine acquired ZFS
> through SUC). I do have a service contract though.

Yes, I think that's fair enough, I shouldn't have been so negative.
(I'm kind of surprised Sun made zfs available via patches though - I'd
not have done that if I was them.)

--tim