[pca] StarOffice 9 patches might need special handling

[Martin Paul]

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.