SUMMARY: patching Solaris 2.5.1 system with remote /usr partition

Hi,
I only recieved one reply on this subject, from Darren Dunham, which I've
included.

I have decided not to patch the Solaris 2.5.1 machines in question, since we
want to try to upgrade everything to Solaris 8 soon anyways.

Thanks for your help!

Nicole

Darren Dunham:
If you have 'patchadd' (which is in Solaris 2.6 and up I believe) this
is mentioned in the man page for it..


NOTES

     To successfully install a  patch  to  a  client  or  server,
     patchadd  must  be issued twice, once with the -R option and
     once with the -S option. This guarantees that the  patch  is
     installed  to  both  the  /usr  and root partitions. This is
     necessary if there are both /usr and root  packages  in  the
     patch.

The -S option lets you apply the patch on the server just to the
exported /usr for the clients.

You'd have to investigate the patchadd script options for the patch
you're interested in applying.  It may support the same options.







Original Post
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Hello,

I have to patch a few Solaris 2.5.1 systems that have / and var mounted from
local disks, and /usr (and everything else) nfs mounted from remote machines.
Has anyone ever patched systems setup like this before?  How does it handle
the files that are supposed to be installed in /usr?  Can you still patch the
kernel and files in /?

Here's an example of the df output.
 df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0     239943   92034  123919    43%    /
doink:/usr     770584  620200   73336    90%    /usr
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s4      96023   10074   76349    12%    /var
swap                  154736       8  154728     1%    /tmp
/cachefs/opt/.cfs_mnt_points/doink:_opt
                     1636568  846928  625992    58%    /opt
/cachefs/opt3rdparty/.cfs_mnt_points/javaboy:_opt_3rdparty
                     7917400 1288184 5837472    19%    /opt/3rdparty
/cachefs/usrlocal/.cfs_mnt_points/javaboy:_usr_local
                     3462288 2037512 1078560    66%    /usr/local
homes:/home/u026      138342167 30792918 106165828    23%    /home/u026


Thanks,
Nicole
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