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Using Ksplice

Setting up Local Ksplice Repo

Using Ksplice to patch servers Locally

1. Clear/rename old non-ksplice REPOs, so go to /etc/yum.repos.d, you should only see 2 files with .repo

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 495 May 14  2020 Local-ksplice.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 617 May 14  2020 Local-oracle.repo 

2. Install the following packages:

# yum install uptrack-updates-$(uname -r)
# yum install ksplice-updates-glibc*
# yum install ksplice-updates-openssl*

3. To list the available Ksplice updates, use the upgrade subcommand:

# ksplice -n all upgrade

4. To install all available Ksplice updates, use the upgrade subcommand:

# ksplice -y user upgrade

5. To Review after patching, you can get a list of what packages have been installed using:

# ksplice all show