[pca] PCA patch analysis question

[Martin Paul]

Stephen,

> Does PCA examine each installed package on the server for the missing 
> patches?  If PCA relies only on "showrev -p", then its analysis of the 
> patch missing will be wrong.

At its core, pca's analysis is pretty simple. It takes the list of 
installed packages from "pkginfo -x", matches it against the list of 
patch->package references in patchdiag.xref, sorts out already installed 
patches from "showrev -p" and presents the result as the list of missing 
patches.

Martin.