[pca] Missing packages while installing patches

[Josep Román]

Hello Paul,

Thanks for your answer.

I see the point. However, the patch at the end is not installed because it's
missing the 125077-02 patch, which is not available at Sunsolve's site.

Is there any way to force the installation? Something â la RPM with the
--no-dependencies option.

TIA,

Josep

-----Mensaje original-----
De: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at]
En nombre de Martin Paul
Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2008 10:54
Para: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Asunto: Re: [pca] Missing packages while installing patches

Hi Josep,

> Is it correct that pca tries to patch even one of the listed pkg’s is not
> installed?

Yes. pca (actually patchadd, which is used by pca to install patches) 
installs patches when at least one of the packages included in a patch 
is installed.

The above situation is quite common, BTW. SUNWsmbaS contains the source 
for samba, which is not installed by default. The patch includes 
modifications both to the binaries and sources. As you don't have the 
sources installed, they don't need to be updated.

This leads to one of the problems with Sun's packacke/patch system. If 
you have package A installed, then install patch 1 with fixes for 
packages A and B, the fixes for A will be applied. If you later install 
package B, you will have to re-install patch 1 to ensure that the fixes 
from the patch are applied to package B as well.

Hope that helps,

Martin.