Mar 26, 2015 this article will talk about the oracle solaris 11. Hi, i use solaris 10 u11 sparc version, and i have a packagerelated problem. Sometimes your solaris servers dont have direct internet access but you have linux servers that does. This page is concerned with instructions on how to build it all. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. Hi, can any one assist me with the lsof package for solaris 11 version, as we need to install in one of the new server. Solaris patch cluster install on how to do that, it is best to have the system running in single user mode run reboot s if system is running or just boot s if at the open boot prompt, you do not need to break the mirrors for patching unless you want a quick way of. Help for lsof package on solaris 11 oracle community. However much we might hate ips, bloat, gnome, bash as roots shell, and all the other linuxisms, weve got to accept that this is the future of solaris assuming solaris has a future and embrace it. Example 2211 checking the file attributes of installed software packages.
Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. With ips, you can update all of the packages on your system that have available updates, or you can update individual packages that are not constrained by the system. Things have changed in the openjdk build requirements, so the process is slightly different. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support.
In this example, the second patch bundle called sru2 has been installed on oracle solaris 11, update 0. Using pkgutil on solaris with puppet for easy package management ive been using puppet on linux systems for some time now, but ive only just started using it in a solaris environment. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. This marks a module as deprecated, which means a module is kept for backwards compatibility but usage is discouraged. The s option in your first command tells pkgtrans to translate the package into a datastream package on device2 the target if the device2 argument is a directory, then a filesystem type package will be placed in the directory. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of packages in solaris easier. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of csw packages in solaris easier. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 elis blog. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
Pkgutil is not designed for linux though so you have to do some steps before it works. Opensolaris has a quite powerful package management system called ips image packaging system which is very different from its predecessor teh solaris 10 svr4 packaging system. Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. I managed to install a few of them by hand using pkgadd but i would like to use their pkgutil application so all dependencies would install themselves automatically, installin. This page describes how to map in solaris 11 installed files to packages and vice versa. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Solaris packages solaris versions sparc 8 9 10 11 x86 8 9 10 11 donnerstag, 10.
I think one of the killer functions of puppet is being able to easily install packages and manage services on a system. This is the official site for pkgutil, the easy to use, yet fully featured, installation tool for solaris csw packages. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository solaris 11 ips handon lab managing software packages solaris 11 ips handon lab boot environments oracle solaris 11 uses a completely new approach for package management. Oct 08, 20 this session was presented at oracle openworld 20, and covers some of the best practices for the new packaging system in oracle solaris 11, ips. Solaris packages dagobert michelsen baltic online computer gmbh donnerstag. Nov 18, 2010 solaris 11 is, in its first official form, with us. When you add a patch, the patchadd command calls the pkgadd command to install the patch packages from the patch directory to a local systems disk.
Download the latest version of the script to your home directory. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Solaris s package tools expect either an absolute file path or a relative path to a file in varsadminstalladmin. Solaris 11 is public available and the ips package management is setting new standards in solaris administration and version management. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Hi quick and question for the unix expert here i downloaded the lastest patch from sun. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Mar 11, 2009 my place to go is, where users can download a boatload of free software for solaris x8664. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository the. Using package commands to manage software packages oracle. Released 201112 remove hardcoded paths to svr4 package tools. Users and roles in oracle solaris 11 the urban penguin.
Oracles ultimate goal is to make the solaris patching like redhat linux satellite server patching model. Install package updates that deliver fixes a pkg update operation might include bug fixes, so the operation is similar to applying a specific patch or patches in. This example shows the path to use if you are not running at least the solaris 10. Solaris packages prerequisites fetch checksum extract patch. Theres a few alternatives available on how to get and install pkgutil. The gist of using software from this site is using a utility called pkgutil, another solaris package that aids installation of software packages listed on this site. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Package build descriptions with potential patches are available from the opencsw. If a package is constrained, an appropriate message indicating why it has been constrained is provided. Building on oracle solaris 11 expressopensolaris is covered on the opensolarisspecific page. Everyone who develops software for this platform will want to make sure that the application users are using the optimal solaris 11 infrastructure. Extends pkgutil functionality libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by pkgutil. This section will focus on the recommended strategies proposed by sun microsystems and red hat.
Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. The value of adminfile will be passed directly to the pkgadd or pkgrm command with the a option. It relies on a networkcentric and efficient approach with automatic software dependency checking and validation, and it builds on the foundation of oracle solaris zfs as the. Oct 16, 20 installing applying an idr pkgpatch using a. There are several strategies for handling patch management, some of which have been alluded to in previous sections. Solaris packages pkgutil wrapper around pkgadd pkgrm. For more information and examples, see applying support updates in adding and updating software in oracle solaris 11.
Solved packagesrelated problem with csw pkgutil on solaris. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services. Use the install packages by using pkg task to install and update packages on solaris 11 and later endpoints that are using local repositories or repositories that are provided by oracle or other publishers. The oracle solaris 10 and 11 os installation or the foss does not include the lsof package. The best way of updating your patching is apply a sun supplied recommended patch cluster, there are instructions here. Ips is an integrated solution that helps automate and ease the complexity of managing system software on oracle solaris 11 by integrating patching with package updates. Foss component by patching the code rather than by generating a new version of the component.
Then you can use pkgutil to download packages intelligently for you on a linux host. Published on the otn garage the official blog of the system admin and developer community of otn with links to tales from the datacenter by erik benner, enterprise architect, mythics inc. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems.
For a customer on an early version of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305, solaris 10 106 update 1, or solaris 10 606 update 2, there is a very significant amount of code change delivered, for example, in the current kernel patch compared with the original kernels delivered in these releases. Pkgadd patch 110934110935 for solaris 8 and 17114568 for solaris 9. That being said, solaris packages are usually locked into a particular set of revisions via a meta package called entire. Dec 30, 20 users and roles in oracle solaris 11 december 30, 20 by the urban penguin users in oracle solaris 11 are identified by a user id and group id but we will see that each process has a real, effective and set user id and group id. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. It is normally not possible to manually install a package from a newer release of solaris 11. Using pkgutil on solaris with puppet for easy package. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. So, solaris 11 which is radically different from the solaris 10, but talk about it separately it deserves another blog post for another time in terms of patching strategy is double. In this example, there have been no updates to the initial release. Meet pkgutil installer of solaris and opensolaris packages.
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