[pca] about "obsoleted" patches

[Martin Paul]

Gérard Henry wrote:
> How is it possible to have, in a single command, a sort of "follow-up" 
> to know if patches that have obsoleted other patches are present on the 
> system?

You can't do that with pca right now. I find Sun's recommendation to 
"stay up to date on patch X" if when patch X is obsolete a little 
strange. Either they replace obsoleted patches with the patches that 
obsoleted them in this list, or they list e.g. "119682-02 (or newer) 
instead.

I also think that patch 119254 (Install and Patch Utilities Patch) 
should be the *one* patch to ensure correct functioning of the patching 
utilities (for Solaris 10/SPARC). If patchadd/patchrm depend on fixed in 
utilites they use (e.g. awk, grep), 119254 should require that patch.

Martin.