Entries tagged with 'patches'

I think one of the best features of Solaris is the Live Upgrade mechanism. This really useful feature can be used for upgrading and patching with very little impact on the server. This means you can patch or upgrade your production system, whilst it’s still in production, and only schedule a short outage [...]

I encountered a bit of a challenging question today…
Suppose I have Solaris 10 1/06 (update 1) installed and I’ve patched it with various patches that are actually provided as part of a much later release, for example Solaris 10 11/06 (update 3). Will I have to reapply those patches if I perform a live [...]