[Spacewalk-list] Solaris Management

[Lopez, Abel]

Sorry for the late chime in.
Here are my observations with Spacewalk on Solaris.
After some mucking around with some of the pm scripts to understand the
new format, I was able to apply cluster patches to my test systems.
However, I ran into difficulty when I started using spacewalk on
production systems, as they included Zones and ZFS, which require steps
outside of the cluster installer.

Very odd, because pkgadd/patchadd will work with zones online, but
installcluster wants your zones down.
Secondly, I had to manually upgrade my Zpools, which is not a shortcoming
of Spacewalk, rather, installcluster.

But if you don't have Zones or ZFS, Spacewalk works great.

On 7/13/11 7:02 AM, "Cliff Perry" <cperry at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 07/13/2011 08:34 AM, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
>>
>>> I put newest solaris stuff to http://spacewalk.redhat.com/solaris/
>>> and fixed links on spacewalk wiki to point to new location.
>>>
>>
>> This is great, thank you.  Does anyone know what the future of Solaris
>> support in Spacewalk looks like?  I was talking with some Satellite guys
>> from Red Hat (I'm not sure if they were support or engineers) and they
>> indicated that Solaris support was broken around version 1.1/1.2 of
>> Spacewalk.  Is that not an accurate statement?
>>
>
>For Greg and Josh emails on this thread.
>
>The Solaris management within Spacewalk worked - up too a point. The
>installation of solaris patches and packages for Sparc Solaris 8, 9 & 10
>worked. The installation of Solaris patches and packages for Intel
>Solaris 9 & 10 worked. What did not work was the installation of patch
>clusters for Solaris 9 and 10. This was due to structural changes made
>recently (past year) within the patch clusters. We have addressed the
>patch cluster installation issues we are aware off and Michael just
>posted new packages online.
>
>I hope this clears things up for folks.
>
>Cliff
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
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