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Oracle will release periodic updates for Oracle Solaris Operating System packages as Support Repository Updates (SRU). The latest available SRU is " Oracle Solaris 11.2.3.4.1 Support Repository Update " Each SRU contains updates for multiple packages. If you want to update a specific package then you need to use locking mechanism on packages. This method will be helpful if customers are not willing to update full SRU Immediately. They can update individual packages according to their requirements and at later stage they can update the complete SRU. In this demonstration we will update bash shell independently of SRU cycle. Steps: - Check Existing version of bash root@soltest1:~# pkg list bash pkg list bash NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO shell/bash 4.1.11-0.175.2.0.0.42.1 i-- - Check for available updates root@soltest1:~# pkg list -af shell/bash pkg list -af shell...

Its been some time now Oracle released new version of Solaris "Oracle Solaris 11.2".  There are litlle changes in the configuration of repository on Solaris 11.2 compare to Solaris 11.1. In this article i will demonstrate configuration of  Local IPS repository on Oracle Solaris 11.2 Steps: 1) Download files required for building a repository: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/downloads/local-repository-2245081.html - Download all files 2)  Create ISO image for all downloaded files.  - We can use "winscp" or virtualbox "share folder" option as well to move these files to the server. 3) Copy files into a single directory  from the media: - All files has been copied in /sw_home/sol11_2_images directory 4)  Execute script "install-repo.ksh" for building repository This "install-repo.ksh" script is introduced in solaris 11.2 whereas in solaris 11.1 we need to manually conca...