[pca] Patching Solaris 10

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

>     Has anyone had any problems patching Solaris 10 . 
> Server had problems installing allot of patches which pca recommended . 

Your machines obviously runs a pretty old version of Solaris - I hope 
it's not one of the beta versions. /etc/release should tell you.

> Installing 118833-36...
> 
> Version of package SUNWcakr from directory SUNWcakr.v in patch 118833-36
> differs from the package installed on the system.
> Version of package SUNWkvm from directory SUNWkvm.v in patch 118833-36
> differs from the package installed on the system.

This is probably not a real problem. Some packages exist in multiple 
versions for different architectures (e.g. .u for sun4u arch), and only 
the one which matches the architecture of the machine will install.

> Package SUNWcart200 from directory SUNWcart200.v in patch 118833-36 is
> not installed on the system. Changes for package SUNWcart200 wil
> l not be applied to the system.

Same here - a patch can include packages which aren't installed  on your 
system. These messages just tell you that these non-existing packages 
won't be modified.

Did the patch installation of 118833-36 really fail, or was it only 
later patches (check "patchadd -p")? The special thing about 118833-36 
is that it requires and enforces a reboot before it allows any other 
patches to be installed.

If this doesn't help, please re-run pca on the machine with --debug and 
provide the full output (please send it by e-mail to me if it's huge).

Martin.