What's New in Software Administration

The patchadd and patchrm commands are used to add and remove patches from a Solaris 2.x system. They cannot be used to manage patches on a Solaris 1.x system.

You can add one or more patches to a system, client, service, or a net install image. A service can be a previous release, such as Solaris 2.3, that is provided to clients from a server.

If a patch contains both root and usr packages in the patch, the patchadd command must be issued twice. Once with -R option to apply the patch's root package, and once with the -S option to apply the patch's usr package.

See Chapter 18, Patch Administration (Overview) for more information.