[SunHELP] Diff between patches and MUs?

[Wolfgang Engelien]

>On Fri, 11 May 2001, Ben Ricker wrote:
>
>| What exactly is the difference between the "Recommended" patches and
>| Maintenance updates? The MUs are just a bunch of patches! Just curious
>| is I need to do both or just the Recommended. MU4 is 148 megabytes ZIPPED!
>
>The Recommended Patch Cluster conatins patches that are important for all
>systems to apply. These patches mainly address security and
>stability/performance fixes.
>
>The MUs contain all the patches in the Recommended Patch cluster, as well
>as many other patches that fix small errors in not-as-important areas of
>Solaris, and also patches that introduce new functionality into Solaris.
>
>Applying a MU will bring your server up spec with the current release of
>Solaris. In other words, applying the MU3 for Solaris 8 will bring your
>system up to Solaris 8 1/01 standards. Applying MU4 will bring it up to
>Solaris 8 4/01 standards, and so on.

Yes, that's what the probably wanted to do ... In the actual MU4 are
5 patches missing to be equal to sol8 4/01. Look for the MU4 docu,
which is within the MU4 zip.