[pca] 32bit EBS patch on 64bit hosts

[David Stark]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
> David Stark wrote:
>> We've got a bunch of machines with EBS clients installed, and every pca run results in:
>> 116831 -- < 04 -S- 647 Sun StorEdge EBS 7.2: 32-bit Product Patch SU3
>> being recommended. This fails with:
>
> I have found the reason for that; the EBS patches use "sparc" and
> "sparcv9" in the ARCH field of pkginfo to differentiate between 32-bit
> and 64-bit patches. According to "man -s 4 pkginfo" this should not be done:
>
>   ... should restrict itself to ARCH values from the following
>   Solaris-supported  instruction  set architectures (uname -p):
>   sparc, i386, and ppc.
>
> Right now, I don't think I can workaround this in pca, not even with a
> hack. pca uses "uname -a" to get information about the host, and this
> doesn't include the 32/64 bitness. Only isainfo does, but that would
> mean introducing a new required input source, which I'm not very keen to do.

Sun in patch breakage shocker...
I may raise a case with Sun to get this looked at, but I don't know how they'll react to fixes for the sake of third party tools. We'll see what happens.

> Could you please send me output of:
>
>   uname -a > uname.out
>   showrev -p > showrev.out
>   pkginfo -x > pkginfo.out
>
> of the affected machine for further analysis? As a workaround, add 
> "ignore=116831" to pca.conf so the patch won't show up again.

Attached.

>> There is a 64bit patch (116832-04), but this is never suggested by PCA.
>
> This is caused by an unusual architecture specification as well, this time 
> in patchdiag.xref. I've found some more of those when looking closer, and 
> fixed those as well in the current development release. Please get and try 
> that on your system - both EBS patches should show up now. If not, I'll 
> need the *.out file to test locally.

Yup, the devel pca version picks up the 64bit patch now, so we're back in business.

> Martin.

Dave
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