[pca] Problems with UTF patch on minimized system

[Bleek Thomas]

Hello Martin,

thanks for your help. I did try to add the mentioned packages but  
after that I got even more of these error messages, so I did not try  
further. Unfortunately I now have to add these ignore lines to all  
pca.conf's located at the client machines.

Perhaps there could be implemented a "distribution service" in pca? We  
use a proxy-setup and all of our client machines have identical  
pca.conf files.

I'm wondering, why this problem had not hit me earlier. I use pca for  
about 2 years now (GREAT THANKS again to you!) without the need to add  
even ONE ignore line. So I thought this is a special problem which  
could be solved by the Sunny boys or you.

Thanks again. I really don't know what to do if pca would no exists.
thomas

Am 27.08.2009 um 09:59 schrieb 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.
>

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