[rescue] Sun's new policy sucks...

[Mike F]

Bill Bradford wrote:

>
>They just reorganized.  ftp to sunsolve.sun.com gives you teh same stuff
>as http://patches.sun.com.
>
>mrbill at ohno:~> ftp
>ftp> open sunsolve.sun.com
>Connected to sunsolve.sun.com.
>220 scfe280r2 FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(3) Mon Oct 4 22:38:13 PDT 2004) ready.
>Name (sunsolve.sun.com:mrbill): anonymous
>331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
>Password:
>230-###########################################################
>230-ATTENTION:
>230-Downloading anything from this site indicates implicit compliance with
>230-the terms and conditions set forth in the README document found at:
>230-ftp://patches.sun.com/README
>230-
>230-This FTP site functions as a standard, anonymous FTP server.
>230-
>230-Access to non-public patches (available only to Sun customers
>230-with an active Sun Support contract) is NO LONGER available via FTP. 
>230-To access non-public patches, please visit SunSolve's HTTP website:
>230-http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patchpage
>230-All patch revisions for public patches are available in both signed and
>230-unsigned format.
>230-
>230-Please note that the directory structure for FTP has changed. For
>230-information on the new structure, please visit:
>230-ftp://patches.sun.com/DIRECTORY
>230-###########################################################
>230-
>230-Please read the file README
>230-  it was last modified on Tue Aug 31 19:19:51 2004 - 218 days ago
>230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
>Remote system type is UNIX.
>Using binary mode to transfer files.
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>
>Wait a minute, I guess you are right - no more contract patches via FTP.
>
>That blows.
>
>Bill
>  
>
Patch clusters are available in 
ftp://patches.sun.com/patchroot/clusters/  for 2.5.1 -> 9, but there are
no clusters available for 10. However, patch reports are available for
Solaris 10 at 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access  so
it seems that the way to go for 10 is to pick individual patches to
apply and download them from  ftp://patches.sun.com/all_unsigned/  I
can't get a directory listing for /all_unsigned, but if you know what
file you need, it will let you download it.

- Mike