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From: tgilbert@nacho (Todd Gilbert)
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Subject: Re: Patches: ignore maintenance supp and just install recommended?
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Date: 11 Aug 1994 19:52:24 GMT
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Susan Cole (cole@unix.sri.com) wrote:

: My question is:  Having installed the security patches from Sunsolve, is
: there in fact any reason for me to install the maintenance supplement right
: now?  Will I get bit if I don't?  I'm inclined to wait, and only install
: further patches as they turn out to be needed.  Partly this is because I
: install them with the save option and if I go around installing lots of
: unnecessary old versions I will eat up my /var space.  Comments?

I tried installing the maintenance supplement on one of my Solaris
machines that  had higher revs of the "recommended" patches already
installed.  My machine choked and refused to play nice until I did
a complete OS re-install.  I do not believe this was a result of
having some of the patches installed at a higher level, but I never
ruled out that possibility.

It was a 4/110 I was trying it out on, rather than risking my Sparc 10,
so I suspect one or more of the patches just wasn't _that_ compatible.
I have no proof though, as I've taken that machine back to 4.1.1 where
it was happy.

As a result of this experience I won't use the maintenance supplement
at all.  I'll just grab patches as I realize I need them...then go to
2.4 and start all over ;->.

Regards
Todd
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