[pca] Patch mismatch when analyzing

[Martin Paul]

Laurent Blume wrote:
> But there are still those that need to be manually ignored:

I'm not sure whether they should be ignored (by pca) after looking 
through the Portal Server patches (I've got a headache now).

> 118115 06 < 11 --- 755 Portal Server 6.3 6.3_x86: Sun Java(TM) System
> Portal Server

According to the xref file, this patch has a fix for a file in the 
SUNWpslcfg package, and it's the only patch which delivers a fix for 
this package. So if this package is installed, the patch *does* apply, 
and patchadd will install it. If it isn't faulty, I see no reason why it 
should be ignored. Maybe the fact that the README only talks about 
Solaris 8 and 9 confused the original poster; for unbundled patches, the 
contents of the "Solaris Release" often are wrong.

> 118218 10 < 11 --- 999 PS 6.3.1 PS 6.3.1_x86: Identity Server Mobile Access
> 118219 11 < 12 --- 999 PS 6.3.1 PS 6.3.1_x86: Portal Server Mobile Access

The portal server patches seem to have been created by someone who isn't 
familiar with Sun's patch procedures. One error is that there are two 
patches for x86 and sparc, although the patches don't contain binaries 
(just jar and text files) - one patch would suffice. The other error is 
that old patches haven't been obsoleted by new patches (or revisions), 
but completely new patches have been created instead.

As far as I can see, 118218 and 119325/119326 should have been obsoleted 
by 119530/119531, which deliver the same files. Same for 118219 and 
118950/118951. It should do no harm to install all of them either, 
though. As the most recent patches have the highest patch ID, these will 
be installed last anyway.

One could argue whether I could put a workaround into pca, but I tend to 
think that if patchadd *does* apply a patch, it shouldn't be ignored by 
pca, no matter how useful that is.

Martin.