[cups.general] Impact/managemnt of Solaris Patch Bundles to Cups (Ticket100711A)

[Thomas Mieslinger]

On 10/ 7/11 04:47 PM, ed smith wrote:
> 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
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Back then when I replaced Solaris Printing on Solaris 9 with cups I 
first uninstalled all Solaris Printing related packages ( prgrm 
SUNWmpfilter and so on). Then I installed my created solaris package of 
cups.

Patching Systems was never a problem because if SUNWmpfilter is not 
installed patches for it are not installed too.

Thomas

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