[pca] pca can't download patches if installed on os2008.11

[Don O'Malley]

Martin Paul wrote:
> gerard wrote:
>>> Is this on the os2008.11 machine? Can you show me output of "showrev 
>>> -p" and "patchadd -p"? pca uses either, and one of them has worked 
>>> on any machine I've seen until now.
>>>
>> root at ultra20:/export/home2/patches# showrev -p
>> -bash: showrev: command not found
>> root at ultra20:/export/home2/patches# patchadd -p
>> -bash: patchadd: command not found
>
> That's weird. AFAIK previous versions of OS at least had patchadd, to 
> install old style patches for unbundled software. Can anybody else 
> with a OS 2009.06 system confirm that patchadd has gone?
DOM: I was speaking with a colleague who is more familiar with 
OpenSolaris than I am and he told me that patchadd is no longer shipped 
as part of the core OpenSolaris distro, but you can get it onto your 
system by installing the SUNWswmt package (i.e. using the 'pkg' command).

HTH,
-Don
>
> I think you could make it work by adding your own version of patchadd 
> providing empty output. Like a symbolic link from /usr/sbin/patchadd 
> to /usr/bin/true.
>
> Martin.
>