[pca] X_recommended

[Martin Paul]

Smith, Kev wrote:
> Is there a preferred method of identifying a X_recommend kernel patch
> from the patchdiag.xref so that you can easy identify which hosts are
> down rev with regards to the SUN recommended patch bundles?

If you want to get a list kernel patches (installed or missing) on a 
certain machine with pca, you can use:

   pca --list all --pattern kernel

If you want to check whether a certain list of patches is installed, you 
can feed the list of patches to pca (e.g. "pca --list list.txt"). You 
might have to compare the IR column (installed revision) in a wrapper 
script - as the patchdiag.xref only contains information about the most 
current revision of the patches, pca can't list a specified out-of-date 
revision.

It's best to use either Sun's patch clusters *or* pca. While pca can 
list missing patches which carry the Recommended and/or Security flag, 
this doesn't necessarily mean the same as the 10_Recommended cluster.

Martin.