Re: [cobalt-users] New Site for Sun Patches

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

Rick Ewart wrote:
> 
> David Lucas was nice enough to point out:
> >By the way, there are two new updates today and a new place to get
> >them.  They are not listed on the old site.
> >http://sunsolve.sun.com/patches/cobalt/
> 
> WTF? They don't appear on the old site - was anyone planning to
> tell us that they stopped supporting the old site (or am I just 
> up too late and they haven't gotten the old site done yet)? 
> Any reason they are maintaining 2 sites - don't suppose there is 
> any difference between a Cobalt RaQ4 and a Sun Cobalt RaQ4, is there?

Nope, no difference.  From the messages sent to cobalt-announce today
letting people know about the new patches:

===================================
Sun Microsystems
Software Update Notification
06/18/02
===================================

Hello Fellow Sun Cobalt Customers!

The patch pages on cobalt.com have been moved to a new URL:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/patches/cobalt/

Or for those of you who want to get straight to business, please go to:
ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/packages/

We strongly recommend that you apply any and all updates appropriate to
your
server appliance.



I've sent email to the "Cobalt" webmaster, asking for a status update and
policy clarification.  I know we're in the midst of transitioning a lot of
content to "Sun" servers from the old "Cobalt" servers, and I'm almost 100%
positive that the www.cobalt.com/support/download/ page will disappear very
soon (replaced with a redirect to the SunSolve pages or something).  I
think they were assuming the bulk of the people would get the new URL info
from the cobalt-announce mailing.

--
Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
T: 877-718-3569 / x69369