[pca] Problems with UTF patch on minimized system

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

> It is not allowed to add packages after that patching or you have to 
> install ALL (also already installed patches) again. This is obvious to 
> me because otherwise the new packages will only eventually only 
> partially patched. This has been discussed on the list some weeks ago. 
> B.T.W.: Is it possible to do such a forced reinstall of all patches with 
> pca and how?

Theoretically, you could run "pca --install installed", but I never 
tried that, and to be honest - it seems like overkill. Any update 
release of Solaris already has hundreds of patches pre-installed, and 
pca would download and try to install each of them. This *shouldn't* 
cause any problems, but still ..

In a situation like yours, where you add a single package you'd better 
grep for package name:version in patchdiag.xref to see which patches 
must be reinstalled. In the case of SUNWuiu8, it's just one patch (per 
architecture).

As for your real problem:

> Aug 31 11:26:26 rz2 sshd[489]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: Can't 
> convert to UTF-8: Cannot convert the local codeset strings to UTF-8

I'd agree that you should try to open a support case. Seems as if the 
ssh patch pulls in some unwanted dependency which then causes the 
warning. Even if Sun can't or don't want to fix it, I guess I would 
simply ignore the message, especially if it's just a warning which 
doesn't cause any problems.

Good luck,

Martin.