[pca] (Re-)install all patches for a product

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Mon Dec 15 15:14:56 CET 2008


Don O'Malley wrote:
> As Martin has pointed out, there is no easy way to identify partially 
> installed pkgs - unless you wanted to script something to analyze the 
> patch logs in /var/sadm/patch/<patchid>/log for messages similar to:
> 
> bash-3.00# cat /var/sadm/patch/139099-01/log Package not patched:
> PKG=SUNWgtarS
> Original package not installed.

Which, incidentially, is exactly what my proof-of-concept script "pip" 
(partly installed patches) did. For a copy and some user experiences 
take a look at:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/6dc7cd9b09130e46

I didn't get enough feedback to actually bother putting something into 
pca to handle this, though.

Martin.



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