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- From: hartmans@npc.ece.utexas.edu (Sam Hartman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Determining Your Service Level -- an IBM response
- Message-ID: <HARTMANS.92Dec20181903@npc.ece.utexas.edu>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 23:19:03 GMT
- References: <jpe.724602493@ee.egr.duke.edu>
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- In-reply-to: jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu's message of 17 Dec 92 14:28:13 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 17 Dec 92 14:28:13 GMT, jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) said:
- In article <jpe.724602493@ee.egr.duke.edu> jpe@ee.egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) writes:
-
- John> Nntp-Posting-Host: ee.egr.duke.edu
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- John> In a problem report I submitted this week I asked how we were supposed to
- John> determine our service level with all these PTFs in 3.2. Here is the response
- John> I got from the person handling my request.
-
- >From: Cindy Miller Barrett <cindy@eureka.austin.ibm.com>
- >
- >Since AIX 3.2 uses a selective fix strategy, there is not a solid way
- >to determine the "Service Level". One can run AIX 3.2.0, AIX 3.2.0
- >with a bunch of PTFs installed, AIX 3.2.2 (which is AIX 3.2 with a
- >specific package of PTF's), or AIX 3.2.3, etc.
-
- John> How wonderful. It seems the mere concept of a system level has pretty much
- John> gone out the door at IBM. Any comments out there about this?
-
- John> -John
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- IBM has created a way of making sure what patches you have
- installed on your system. IBM certainly isn't the only OS vendor to
- distribute patches, biut under AIX, you can determine (although it is
- tedious) exactly what is installed. This is a good idea.
-
- Also, IBM has used this installation method to provide interum
- upgrades, so they don't have to build an entire new release of the OS.
- Perhaps, though, it is getting about time for all the "working" PTFs
- to be merged into a release with a new modification level, and the
- "semi-working, or still buggy" PTFs to be reissued to work with the
- new modification level of AIX. Or, at least, somethin g needs to be
- done because there are just too many PTFs out there. Also, the
- installation strategy needs to be sped up. For example, it would be
- nice if all pre-requisites were checked at the beginning of an install
- run (in one quck pass), and this never had to be done again. In short,
- there needs to be a way to package more than one PTF an a single
- installation image.
-