Chapter 4 Patching the Installation
After you install the development environment, you may choose to patch the installation with ChorusOS patches provided by Sun. You manage patches using the patchadd(1M) and patchrm(1M) utilities. See the online manual pages for details on how to use the utilities.
Tip -
Apply the following patches on your host workstation running the Solaris operating environment before applying patches to ChorusOS:
- Solaris 7
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Apply patch 107171-04.
Using the standard Solaris tools to manage installations and patches ensures the coherency of the patch management and allows you to track the patch level at any time.
Patches are only guaranteed to work on the original version of the installed product (or patched original versions of the installed product). So you must create a copy of the product source tree if you need to modify it.
Caution - Do not manually change an installation of the product.
The ChorusOS configure(1CC) utility detects inconsistently patched installations and refuses to let you build a ChorusOS system image until patch levels for all components involved are equivalent.
When you receive a patch, follow the instructions in the README file provided with the patch. Patches for ChorusOS are direct instance patches, which means that a given revision of a patch for a given product contains the fixes and data of all previous patches for that particular product. Therefore, you don't have to install or remove previous patches.
Note -
If you are using add-ons for ChorusOS, such as the Source add-on, make sure that you install the patch associated with the product itself and that you install the patches associated with every add-on package.
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