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Re: installing multiple patches(Release 2, 9.2.0.4)

From: John Hurley <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 8 Sep 2004 15:11:12 -0700
Message-ID: <d4d6f278.0409081411.232011e9@posting.google.com>


pagesflames_at_usa.net (Dusan Bolek) wrote in message news:<1e8276d6.0409070128.48d2c0dc_at_posting.google.com>...
> johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net (John Hurley) wrote in message news:<d4d6f278.0409060937.73efdae4_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Then test test test and consider carefully the pros and cons of
> > whether the fix that is being supplied is likely to improve (or not)
> > any production environments before thinking/planning a rollout.
>
> This advice is easy to say, but is hard to do it, especially if we're
> talking about recent security alerts. There are no supplied
> information with them, only: "Severity 1, must apply". We do not know
> what it is patching, why, is it really serious for all configurations,
> is it fixing remote exploit or only local one etc. So applying of
> these patches is more or less the matter of trust (in Oracle) and not
> a considering of pros/cons.

No argument at all these patches already went in here also. Guess I was thinking or meaning "usually". Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 17:11:12 CDT

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