On Thu 13 Jun, 2002, kevin graham kgraham@dotnetdotcom.org wrote:

For 2.6, do make sure you have 106764-08 installed. Since SUNWged is an unbundled driver, patches for it will _not_ be included in 'Recommended' clusters (one of the reasons I despise them), nor will patchdiag include it (unless its logic has been altered significantly since I last read source).

Yeah, the patchdiag and patchcheck scripts will believe what they're told in the .xref. However, I always use the '-l' flag which appends a list of patches worth considering based on your other installed packages.

If you'd like the output to be in html with links to the patch pages in sunsolve, then take a look at http://www.gbnet.net/~mds/pd.pl . There's an extra switch '-w' which makes it stuff random bits of HTML into the output and I find it saves me hours when assembling bespoke patch lists. For the US sunsolve use '-W'.

The output is way faster for the browser to handle than that from patchcheck and in some ways more useful.

Needless to say this is a complete hack, is unsupported by everyone, is a mild abuse of Sun copyright and I should probably be hung by the RIAA and the Fatherland Defence Force for even thinking about it. But if it's useful then I hope I earn some forgiveness along the way.

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