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I lost too much time reading The Museum of Unnatural Mystery.

At work we are trying to get a large number of Solaris boxes up-to-date. I tried to use patchpro from Sun, but after working on it for two days it still generates errors like:

root: [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.server.Se
root: [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.server.Se
root: [ID 702911 user.error] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(ERROR) => com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider@309697 <=Failed to create the signature valiation utility. PatchBundleInstaller.FAI
LED_TO_CREATE_VALIDATION_UTIL
root: [ID 702911 user.error] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(ERROR) => com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider@309697 <=Failed to create the signature valiation utility. PatchBundleInstaller.FAI
LED_TO_CREATE_VALIDATION_UTIL
root: [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxy@6eb6bc <=com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProviderException:
      at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.(ServerPatchSe
root: [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxy@6eb6bc <=com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProviderException:
       at com.sun.patchpro.server.ServerPatchServiceProvider.(ServerPatchSe
 [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProStateMachine0@1f03d7 <=downloadPatches.run(): Error, caught .
 [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProStateMachine0@1f03d7 <=downloadPatches.run(): Error, caught .
 [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProStateMachine0@1f03d7 <=com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxyException:
   at com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxy.(PatchServerProxy.java:90)
   at com.sun.patchpro.server.GroupPatchDownloader.downloadPatches(GroupPatchDownloader.java:104)
   at com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel.performPatchDownload(PatchProModel.java:2062)
   at com.sun.patchpro.
 [ID 702911 user.crit] Tue Aug 17 16:10:20 CEST 2004(CRITICAL) => com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProStateMachine0@1f03d7 <=com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxyException:
   at com.sun.patchpro.server.PatchServerProxy.(PatchServerProxy.java:90)
   at com.sun.patchpro.server.GroupPatchDownloader.downloadPatches(GroupPatchDownloader.java:104)
   at com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel.performPatchDownload(PatchProModel.java:2062)
   at com.sun.patchpro.

So something is wrong. Googling seems to reveal it could be a certificate problem and talks about importing 3 certificates, but the SUNWcert package only contains 2(!). So I used PCA to update the machine to recommended. It is a simple perl script. I needed to hack it a little to work with the strange proxies, but after that it was plain sailing and it just worked. Unlike patch"pro".

So now I need to find out if