On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:21:43PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:13:51AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
I really like a lot of things about Solaris. I dislike a lot of things about it too.. namely, automated installs are annoying (even with JumpStart), and rpm+yum is far superior from a user standpoint than Sun's package -> patchid + 8000 different patch management tools. pca is the closest thing out there to a simple way to see what should be applied to your system, but just not quite the same.
the new IPS package manager is okay. Doing image-updates has reasonably worked well too.
Haven't tried this at all... if it's "free"[1] I will. If it's a large extra cost, I'll stick with PCA :-)
Also, do to the nature of many of the Solaris patches (which require reboots), the LiveUpgrade feature has been a life-saver. Not as necessary in the Linux world, but at least now I can patch my production servers more easily without scheduling a couple hour sof downtime. :)
Forgot...
[1] "Free" as in included with the already large sum of money we pay Sun. :)