[csw-users] libc.so.1 SUNW_1.22.2

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi George,

Am 28.11.2012 um 19:54 schrieb "Wyche, George            PW" <George.Wyche at pw.utc.com>:

>> 2012/11/28 Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
>> To: Questions and discussions
>> Subject: Re: [csw-users] libc.so.1 SUNW_1.22.2
>> 
>>> 2012/11/28 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>:
>>> I would say our baseline is s10u8. You can freely download s10u10 and
>>> luupgrade to that without a support contract IIRC.
>> 
>> We were thinking about matching the building OS version in sync with
>> the catalog releases. For instance, we'd be building dublin on an
>> older version, and kiel on a newer one. This would make it easier to
>> say: "You need at least U4 to run dublin, and at least U8 to run
>> dublin" (numbers are completely bogus in that sentence).
> 
> I have the DVD iso, but none of our 7 sparc blades has a DVD writer (and nobody over at sunrescue.org had a DVD writer suggestion). The worthless office Windows DVD writer's DVD attempts have succeeded in making anything any of the blades can read.
> 
> Hmmm. Isn't there a Solaris10 facility for treating an iso as a virtual DVD?

Sure,
  lofiadm -a /my/Image.iso
  mount -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
and then luupgrade from there.

> Is it legal to pay someone to burn a DVD of this iso for us? 

Just SFTP via putty and burn on a PC.

> 
> Finally, does anybody have a simple answer to how much does it cost to deal with Oracle to keep up with basic OS bug patches?
> 
> 3 questions -- 1 email (usually not a smart idea

I hope I could at least answer some of them.


Best Regards -- Dago