[rescue] Solaris 8 /9 patch server online / offline

[David Brownlee]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 14:10, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/18/23 09:07, Rob Craig via rescue wrote:
> > Darn. I hate Oracle so much. LOL
>
>    Yes.  It's no laughing matter, I'm afraid.
>
> > Does any have the full patches for Solaris 7,8,9 ? So at least I an have a local copy on my server for personal use for my machines.
>
>    By "full patches" do you mean the recommended patch clusters, or
> something else?  I have many of the clusters.

Presumably if someone had a support contract from Oracle which
entitled them to all the patches, they could legitimately setup a
local patch server, as long as they did not make it publicly available
on the Internet?

On that assumption, someone could put together a tool which would
verify a directory of patch files, and present them as a patch server
- similar to how MAME, fs-usa and similar handle rom files.

That tool could legitimately be maintained and updated on github or
similar, and used by anyone who had a set of patch files.

David