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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration |
1. Oracle Solaris Management Tools (Road Map)
2. Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks)
3. Working With the Oracle Java Web Console (Tasks)
4. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)
5. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)
6. Managing Client-Server Support (Overview)
7. Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks)
8. Introduction to Shutting Down and Booting a System
9. Shutting Down and Booting a System (Overview)
10. Shutting Down a System (Tasks)
11. Modifying Oracle Solaris Boot Behavior (Tasks)
12. Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)
13. Managing the Oracle Solaris Boot Archives (Tasks)
14. Troubleshooting Booting an Oracle Solaris System (Tasks)
15. x86: GRUB Based Booting (Reference)
16. x86: Booting a System That Does Not Implement GRUB (Tasks)
17. Working With the Oracle Solaris Auto Registration regadm Command (Tasks)
18. Managing Services (Overview)
20. Managing Software (Overview)
21. Managing Software With Oracle Solaris System Administration Tools (Tasks)
22. Managing Software by Using Oracle Solaris Package Commands (Tasks)
Applying an Oracle Solaris Update or an Oracle Solaris Update Patch Bundle
Applying a Recommended Patch Cluster
Applying a Critical Patch Update
Applying an Enterprise Installation Standards Patch Baseline
How to Display Information About Patches
Applying a Sample Patch Using the patchadd Command
Patch management involves applying patches and software updates to a system. Patch management might also involve removing unwanted or faulty patches. Removing patches is also called backing out patches.
This chapter describes the following information:
A patch is an accumulation of fixes for a known or potential problem within the Oracle Solaris operating system or other supported software. A patch can also provide a new feature or an enhancement to a particular software release. A patch consists of files and directories that replace or update existing files and directories. Therefore, patches are used for the following purposes:
Delivering bug fixes
Delivering new functionality
Delivering new hardware support
Delivering performance enhancements or only enhancements to existing utilities
Patches are identified by unique patch IDs. A patch ID is an alphanumeric string that is a patch base code and a number that represents the patch revision number joined with a hyphen. For example, patch 118833-10 is the patch ID for the SunOS 5.10 kernel update patch, 10th revision.
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