[pca] Patch weirdness -- any ideas?

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

> Why is it that I am seeing a Solaris 8 patch on a Solaris 10 server and that
> too a bad patch?
> 
> 04. Is it because of this?
> Patch: 117350-29 Obsoletes: 112031-01, 112170-02, 113301-02, 113683-02,
> 116897-01, 116901-02, 117004-01 Requires: 108528-29, 117000-05
> Incompatibles:  Packages: FJSVhea

Yes. It seem's as if the admin took the FJSVhea package from a Solaris 8 
distribution and installed it on the Solaris 10 system. The package most 
probably had patch 117350-29 pre-installed - that's why the patch shows 
up as being installed. pca lists it as BAD, because 117350-29 is marked 
as such in the patchdiag.xref file (grep for "117350|29").

> Obviously the SysAdmin has installed Fujitsu headers on a Sun Enterprise
> E3500. But should this software effect the inclusion of kernel patch from
> Solaris 8 which will not be installed, even if we tried it.

I guess the patch doesn't install because it requires other patches 
which are for packages that are missing on a Solaris 10 system, of course.

The real question is why the admin didn't install the FJSVhea which 
comes with the Solaris 10 distribution that is installed on the machine? 
In that case, FJSVhea would be patched by the correct Solaris 10 kernel 
patch. pca (and patchadd) don't care about the OS release when judging 
whether a patch applies. If any of the packages included in a patch is 
installed on a system, the patch will apply.

Hope that helps,

Martin.