Should I bother updating to Sol 10 u6?
Hi all,
A question I have never really gotten a straight answer to, from anyone (not Sun, not community locals, nor documentation).
Should I actually go to the trouble of UPDATING my Solaris 10 u3 hosts to u6 via taking the hosts down, then booting from the u6 media, then (if it works!) selecting the upgrade install?
The reason I ask is because, as I've noticed in my patching schedules, all the updates (including kernel/zfs genesis style stuff) all seem to come through anyway. Is there really any point to actually trying to UPDATE the host to u6 when the patches seem to keep it in line anyway? (I use PCA, patch check advance, if anyone is interested).
I know the question seems obvious/simple enough, but again, nobody has ever been able to give me a straight reasoning or a definite +"yes you must"+ or +"no, don't bother"+ style answer, let alone some reasons for/against.
Any help would be appreciated.
zebrac,
Yes, you are correct that if you apply all the patches your system will be patched and up to date. What you won't have though is ( from what I understand by reading patch cluster documentation) is that you won't have the latest features. These are only available if you are on a given release base, and are not added in, even if you if you apply a full patch cluster. I.e. in u6 Sun added a bunch of ZFS stuff, but also added SSE3+ instruction support for x86 processors, and SHA256/SHA512 crypto capabilities to everyone. In u5 they added additional power management support, xVNC and Trusted Extensions.
Here is the release details for all the releases: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547?l=en
We just moved our 10 machines or so up to u6, and although we have had some problems on the x86 side, for the most part everything has gone well. Of course with all new releases, there are issues, but that's why we back everything up first! =D
Hope that helps,
Dave
P.S. Console upgrade! AFAIK, it's the only option that offers the upgrade path.
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Symptom
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Other terms
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ISO 8859-9 (Turkish) ********************
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