[pca] StarOffice 9 patches might need special handling
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Fri Feb 6 14:09:59 CET 2009
Hi Laurent,
> I've noticed that those two patches appeared today in the missing
> patches on my system:
>
> 139337 -- < 01 -S- 1 StarOffice 9 (Solaris_x86): Update 1
> 139338 -- < 01 -S- 1 StarSuite 9 (Solaris_x86): Update 1
>
> However, I don't have SO9 installed, only SO8 (from the system), and
> OOo3. And obviously, no StarSuite.
The patches contain about 25 oobasis30-* packages and one named
openofficeorg-ure. I guess the latter is the culprit, it seems to be the
standard OOo3 package name. Can you verify that you have this package
installed?
> So, not sure what those patches would do.
I've unzipped the patch, it includes:
$ find openofficeorg-ure/reloc -type f
openofficeorg-ure/reloc/opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libuno_sal.so.3
openofficeorg-ure/reloc/opt/openoffice.org/ure/bin/versionrc
So installing the patch would install or replace (if your OOo3 is
installed under /opt/openoffice.org/) these two files. Even worse, if
you install 139337 now and install SO9 later, 139337 won't be shown
again and most part of SO9 would stay unpatched.
I don't know whether Sun had a reason to stick with the official OOo3
package name for the URE package, but this wasn't a good idea.
A new development release of pca will show the SO9 patches only if
oobasis30-base is installed; I guess it's safe to assume that as a
signal for an existing SO9 installation. Get it from:
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/develop/pca
Thanks for the report,
Martin.
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