How to Change the Patch Set (Command Line)

You can choose to analyze your system based on different sets of Sun patches, such as the Recommended Patch Cluster. By default, you use the patch set All Available Patches.

As of June 2005, the only patch sets available from Sun are All Available Patches and Recommended Patch Cluster.

1. Become an appropriately authorized user or assume a role that includes the Software Installation profile or the solaris.admin.patchmgr.* authorization.

   The System Administrator profile includes the appropriate profiles. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Specify the patch set to use.

   • To base your analysis on all patches, type:

     # smpatch set patchpro.patchset=patchdb

   • To base your analysis on recommended patches, type:

     # smpatch set patchpro.patchset=recommended

   • To base your analysis on another patch set, type:

     # smpatch set patchpro.patchset=patch-set