Impact/managemnt of Solaris Patch Bundles toCups (Ticket100711A)

[ed smith]

> On 10/ 7/11 04:47 PM, ed smith wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > What is your method for management of OS patches to Unix environments? Wh=
> enever we apply patch bundles to our Solaris 10 systems, they often times o=
> verlay the various CUPS utilities with native Solaris versions- (lp, lpstat=
> , cancel, enable, etc ) or change the links. The man pages get stomped on a=
> s well. I currently manually repair this, using detailed reference info. Ho=
> wever, this is cumbersome. We have 200+ production printers around the coun=
> try, so impact is great if I miss something. Surely others are faced with t=
> his 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=20
> first uninstalled all Solaris Printing related packages ( prgrm=20
> SUNWmpfilter and so on). Then I installed my created solaris package of=20
> cups.
>
> Patching Systems was never a problem because if SUNWmpfilter is not=20
> installed patches for it are not installed too.
>
> Thomas
>
> --=20
> Thomas Mieslinger
>
> 1&1 Internet AG - IT Operations Data Services Infrastructure
> Brauerstra=C3=9Fe 48 =C2=B7 DE-76135 Karlsruhe
> Telefon: +49 721 91374 4404
> thomas.mieslinger at 1und1.de
>
> Amtsgericht Montabaur / HRB 6484
> Vorst=C3=A4nde: Henning Ahlert, Ralph Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich, Robert=
> =20
> Hoffmann, Markus Huhn, Hans-Henning Kettler, Dr. Christian Kugelmeier,=20
> Dr. Oliver Mauss, Jan Oetjen
> Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren

Hi Thomas,

thanks for the idea. Not sure I quite got the construct syntax on that approach, lirerally, what is the =20 ? looks like a character substitute in the forum and I haven't intuitively translated it. could you clarify or state another way?

Thanks,
Ed Smith McQuay
>