[pca] Problems with UTF patch on minimized system

[Martin Paul]

Thomas,

> Is this a special problem with the UTF-patch? I did think, that a patch 
> installs fine even with missing other packages.

Yes, a patch for packages A, B and C will install fine as long as at 
least one of the packages is installed. But in your case patch 121734-08 
requires some other patches, and you have none of the packages patched 
by these required patches on your system. So the requirements can't be 
installed and installation of 121734-08 fails.

The root cause for that IMHO is that Sun doesn't test patches on 
minimized systems, and sometimes requirements might be set which 
probably aren't really necessary (I can't say anything about this 
special case, though).

There's no simple solution for your problem. You could check the list of 
packages patched by the required patches (119059-24, 119278-13, 
124393-03) and install at least one of the packages for each patch. Then 
the patches can be applied, too, and the prerequisites for 121734-08 
will be fulfilled. Or you could simply ignore 121734-08, if the fix 
isn't important to you anyway.

Martin.