[pca] PCA not reporting on patches that may need to be re-installed

David Stark dave at davidstark.name
Sat Mar 21 15:35:33 CET 2009


Norman Lyon wrote:
> I've run into problems where a patch may need to be re-installed if 
> someone has added a package after patching.  PCA does not seem to catch 
> this.

As far as I'm aware none of the automated patch tools available for 
Solaris will catch this - they all use 'showrev -p' to check what 
patches are installed. It's one of the many quirks that makes patching 
Sun boxes so much fun.



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