Well, I got plenty of responses from my post asking what the deal
was with sun's dialup patch database.
Essentially, the response I got was: you need to be a software support
customer to use it. They tell you the password when you pay your
$$$$$.
Someone else mentioned a "SunSolve" CD which contains all the patches.
I don't know how much it costs, or how often it's updated. I can
imagine it goes out-of-date rather quickly.
There are some ftp sites which maintain some set of patches.
| Subject: SUMMARY - sun patches via ftp
| Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 15:22:45 EDT
| From: zinnato@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL
|
| Thanks to everyone who responded. It seems that SOME sun patches are
| available via anonymous FTP. The following is a list of places suggested. I
| didn't check them all, so caveat FTPor:
|
| princeton.edu:/pub/sun-fixes/4.1.2/
| brazos.rice.edu:/rice/sun/sunos-4.1.2/
| casbah.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/sun-dist/
| iskut.ucs.ubc.ca:/pub/ubc/sun-patches/
| clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk:/pub/sun-fixes/4.1.1/
| jyu.fi:/pub/sun-fixes/
| ftp.uu.net:/systems/sun/sun-dist/
I haven't checked any of these sources besides uunet, whose supply of
patches is very limited...
Thanks to everybody who responded,
-bruce.
---- Bruce Walton bruce@ai.mit.edu MIT artificial intelligence lab 617-253-9667 545 tech sq. cambridge, MA 02139
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