Managing Solaris Updates

While you apply updates, the patchadd command logs information in the /var/sadm/patch/update-id/log file.

The patchadd command cannot apply an update under the following conditions:

• The package is not fully installed on the system.

• The update package’s architecture differs from the system’s architecture.

• The update package’s version does not match the installed package’s version.

• An update with the same base code and a higher revision number has already been applied.

• An update that makes an applied update obsolete.

• The update is incompatible with an update that has already been applied to the system.

• The update being applied depends on another update that has not yet been applied.