[pca] 120011, 122660 Patch weirdness

[Rajiv Gunja]

Yes, I am doing that manually on my test servers, but I have about 200+
servers in prod, and getting Engineers to follow this would be a pain, when
they are working in the middle of the night.

Was hoping if someone had automated it, by writing wrappers around the PCA.

I currently have wrappers to automate and tailor it our Organisation's
needs, but this conundrum is quite difficult/tedious to handle within
scripts.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja

2008/7/17 Bliss, Kevin L <Bliss.Kevin at con-way.com>:

>  I just do steps 1, 2, and 6.
>
>
> *Kevin Bliss*
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> *From:* pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:
> pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] *On Behalf Of *Sapin, Hugues
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:05 AM
> *To:* PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [pca] 120011, 122660 Patch weirdness
>
>  Hello GGR,
>
>
>
> FYI.
>
> I have faced the same issue and I used same workaround as you i.e to
> proceed with manual patching first.
>
>
>
> Hugues.
>
>
>
> 1)       Install manually 122660-10
>
> 2)       Reboot -- -rv
>
> 3)       Install manually 125547-02
>
> 4)       Install manually 120011
>
> 5)       Reboot -- -rv
>
> 6)       Then I proceed with the rest of the patching using "pca"
>
>
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> *From:* pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:
> pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] *On Behalf Of *Rajiv Gunja
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:10 AM
> *To:* PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> *Subject:* [pca] 120011, 122660 Patch weirdness
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Most of my Solaris 10 servers are U3 and we are not yet prepared to go to
> U5. Also we do not install the latest patches, we only install patches which
> are at least 45 days old.
>
> On most of my Servers I see this issue:  I cannot install 120011 as it
> depends on 125547. 125547 depends on 122660, which is Obsoleted by 120011.
>
> Which does not make any sense. Since that patch is Obsoleted, PCA will not
> pick up that patch and install its dependents thus the failing to patch the
> server with 120011.
>
> For now, I am manually adding these patches before proceeding with the
> actual patching.
>
> If you have seen or solved this issue, please share your solution.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -GGR
>
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> Rajiv G Gunja
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