Re: [MLUG] Re: Solaris patches for DST 2007 issue

["Bryan Venable" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

OK, I missed 109809-06.  It's equivalent to the tzdata patch for
Linux.  Wish I had seen that one before I messed up my Solaris 9 box
trying to patch it :(  Ah well, fixed it in the end.

On 3/13/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Bryan Venable wrote:
> >
> >> According to section 5 (Resolution) of this page:
> >> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102775-1
> >>
> >> You need these two patches for Solaris 8 on SPARC:
> >> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109809-06-1
> >> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-108993-52-1
> >>
> >> You have to register for a SunSolve account to get them, but you don't
> >> need a support contract.
> >
> > Thanks, Bryan!  You totally nailed that one.  Unfortunately, I figured
> > it out on my own a few minutes ago and then saw your message.  The one
> > little twist is that the second patch was obsoleted about 14 times since
> > it came out and this is the newest version:
> >
> > http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-108993-66-1
>
>
> It turned out that the second patch required a bunch of other patches and
> those required still more.  Altogether it was asking for about a dozen
> patches and some had special instructions.  I'm not sure that all of them
> were free and at least one was listed as "obsolete" but without a newer
> patch to replace it!  I didn't really want to get into all of that.  They
> weren't security patches.
>
> So I installed patch 109809-06 "timezone data patch" which had no
> requirements and it seemed to fix the time immediately, even before
> rebooting, but it had these notes:
>
> NOTE 1:  Reboot system after patch installation.
>
> NOTE 2:  To comply with the "U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005" which will
>            change daylight saving time transition dates beginning in 2007
>            (see bugid 6348147), please also install the following patch:
>
>            108993-52 (or greater)  LDAP2 client, libc, libthread and
>                                    libnsl libraries patch
>
> So I rebooted, because they told me to, but I didn't install the patch
> from Note 2 because that one (actually revised to 108993-66) was the one
> that required the other dozen patches and might not have worked out.
> Maybe I'm not fully compliant, but if I have the right time, that's
> probably compliant enough for me!
>
> The patch added files in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo, and for me this file was
> probably most important:
>
> /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/US/Central
>
> It's a binary file.  I think they should consider using text files with a
> series of rules for the timezone instead of using a binary file to encode
> all that.  Anyway, maybe they have good reasons.  So, /etc/default/init
> was not changed, which makes sense because I'm in the same timezone, just
> using different DST rules.
>
> Mike
>
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