As you may already know, Oracle Sun patches are now available from My Oracle Support (MOS).

We've uploaded over 30,000 6-2 digit PatchIDs to MOS, including all Solaris 8, 9, and 10 patches, SunCluster, and patches for over a thousand other products. Virtually any patch which is available on SunSolve is now also available from MOS, making MOS your one stop support shop for all Oracle products.

Customers with an Oracle support contract can log into My Oracle Support.

Click on the "Patches & Updates" tab and you'll see that the Patch Search options have been expanded to "Patch Name, Number or Sun CR ID". As it suggests, you can search by the 6-2 digit PatchID or a Sun CR (Change Request) number (i.e. 7 digit BugID).

You can also search by "Product". For example, select "Solaris Operating System" and then in the next line select the versions you are interested in. MOS remembers choices across login sessions, so previous choices will appear top of the list next time you login. You can refine your search - for example, click on the arrow beside "Platform" and select "Type". If you select "Patchset" and click the "Search" button, it'll return the Patch Clusters and Patch Bundles such as the Solaris OS Recommended Patch Cluster and Solaris OS Critical Patch Update (CPU).

So which Oracle Sun patches are currently available from MOS ?:

• Over 30,000 Oracle Sun 6-2 digit PatchIDs (i.e. of the format xxxxxx-xx) for over a thousand products and product versions. This includes all Solaris 8, 9, and 10 patches, SunCluster patches, etc.
• Almost all the Oracle Sun Patch Clusters and Patch Bundles.

What's not yet available (but coming soon) ?:

• Oracle Sun "patches" which are not hosted on SunSolve. These are patches which are not in 6-2 digit PatchID format and are not applied using the Solaris 'patchadd' utility, including Firmware patches for x86 and M-Series. It is planned to upload these in a future MOS release. In the meantime, please continue to download them from the existing download sites. See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/sy...are/index.html.
• StorageTek 6-2 digit PatchIDs. Most StorageTek patches are in a mainframe patch format and are not applied using the Solaris 'patchadd' utility. To host them on SunSolve after the StorageTek acquistion, we wrapped them in a 6-2 digit PatchID. However, it doesn't make sense to wrap these StorageTek 6-2 digit PatchIDs in Oracle BugDB IDs which would be a second level of indirection. Instead, it is planned to upload the original Storagetek patches natively to MOS in a future release. In the meantime, please continue to download them from SunSolve.
• Really, really old patches, such as SunOS 1.x patches, Solaris 7 and older patches, etc. These are utterly obsolete products so there's no point in propageting this crud forward.
• The multi-part Solaris Update Patch Bundles. These will be coming soon. In the meantime, please continue to download them from the SunSolve Patch Cluster and Patch Bundle Download Page.
• Security T-Patches and ISRs (Interim Security Relief). It is planned to support these in a future MOS release. In the meantime, please continue to download them from the SunSolve Temporary or Interim Security Updates page.
• Public patches available without a support contract, such as OpenOffice and StarOffice patches. It is planned to support these in a future MOS release. In the meantime, please continue to download them from SunSolve.
• Some patch metadata files such as the "Checksum" and "patchdiag.xref" files. It is planned to support these in a future MOS release. In the meantime, please continue to download them from SunSolve.

Enjoy!



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