Impact/managemnt of Solaris Patch Bundles to Cups (Ticket100711A)

[ed smith]

Greetings,

What is your method for management of OS patches to Unix environments? Whenever we apply patch bundles to our Solaris 10 systems, they often times overlay the various CUPS utilities with native Solaris versions- (lp, lpstat, cancel, enable, etc ) or change the links. The man pages get stomped on as well. I currently manually repair this, using detailed reference info. However, this is cumbersome. We have 200+ production printers around the country, so impact is great if I miss something. Surely others are faced with this same issue. What are the "best practices" today?

Thanks!
Ed Smith McQuay