Patching Solaris
While there are many wonderful things I like about Solaris (DTrace, Zones, ZFS, SMF,…), I’ve never been really thrilled with the state of patching. One of the Sun blogs on patch management recently posted an overview of the different Sun and 3rd party patch management tools. The comments came rolling in, and it seems like the clear winner from the community side is pca. Check out the discussion and add your comments.
On a brighter note, I’ve been following the development of the new packaging system (IPS) that will be used in Solaris 11, and that should make a whole host of package and patch management problems go away.