[pca] pca displays recommended patches that are not security patch when asking for only security patches

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I ran this `pca -l ms -f /tmp/example.net/' where `/tmp/example.net' has
> the uname.out, showrev.out and pkginfo.out of example.net host
>
> And I get more than security patches in the list


I am guessing those R-- patches are required patches for some of the -S-
patches and that is why they are showing up?!


>
>
> # pca -l ms -f /tmp/example.net/
> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from May/15/09
> Host: example.net (SunOS 5.10/Generic_137137-09/sparc/sun4v)
> List: ms (46/2855)
>
> Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
> ------ -- - -- --- ---
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 119254 59 < 65 RS-  45 SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
> 118666 17 < 19 RS-  56 JavaSE for business 5.0: update 18 patch (equivalent
> to JDK 5.0u18
> 118667 17 < 19 RS-  56 JavaSE for business 5.0: update 18 patch (equivalent
> to JDK 5.0u18
> 119059 45 < 46 RS- 158 X11 6.6.2: Xsun patch
> 119213 17 < 19 RS-  11 NSS_NSPR_JSS 3.12.3: NSPR 4.7.4 / NSS 3.12.3 / JSS
> 4.3
> *140899 -- < 01 R--  12 SunOS 5.10: [ir].manifest patch*
> 119757 12 < 14 RS- 108 SunOS 5.10: Samba patch
> 119783 07 < 10 RS-  98 SunOS 5.10: bind patch
> 120094 21 < 22 RS-  55 X11 6.6.2: xscreensaver patch
> 120185 16 < 17 -S- 188 StarOffice 8 (Solaris): Update 12
> 120272 21 < 23 RS-  69 SunOS 5.10: SMA patch
> 120543 11 < 14 RS-  88 SunOS 5.10: Apache 2 Patch
> 120739 04 < 05 RS-  84 GNOME 2.6.0: GNOME PDF Viewer based on Xpdf
> 121104 05 < 06 RS-  47 SunOS 5.10: Adobe Acrobat Reader patch
> 121308 14 < 16 RS-  89 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Management Console Patch
> 121394 01 < 03 RS-  80 SunOS 5.10 kaio and aio_impl.h patch
> 122212 28 < 32 RS-  47 GNOME 2.6.0: GNOME Desktop Patch
> 122675 01 < 02 -S- 132 SunOS 5.10: SunFreeware samba man pages patch
> 122911 13 < 15 RS-  98 SunOS 5.10: Apache 1.3 Patch
> 123590 09 < 10 RS-   7 SunOS 5.10: PostgresSQL patch
> 125332 03 < 05 RS-  45 JDS 3: Macromedia Flash Player Plugin Patch
> 125539 04 < 06 RS-  45 Mozilla 1.7: Mozilla Firefox Web browser
> 125541 03 < 04 RS-   6 Mozilla 1.7: Mozilla Thunderbird email client
> 125719 13 < 17 RS-  63 X11 6.8.0: Xorg server patch
> 125731 02 < 04 RS- 103 SunOS 5.10: XML and XSLT libraries patch
> 125952 17 < 18 RS- 179 Sun Java Web Console 3.1
> 126868 01 < 02 RS- 249 SunOS 5.10: SunFreeware bzip2 patch
> 136882 01 < 02 RS- 224 SunOS 5.10: ImageMagick patch
> 139099 -- < 02 RS-  27 SunOS 5.10: gtar patch
> 139462 -- < 02 RS-  74 SunOS 5.10: nfssrv patch
> *125555 -- < 03 R--  31 SunOS 5.10: patch behavior patch*
> *140796 -- < 01 R--  12 SunOS 5.10: umountall patch
> 141016 -- < 01 R--  12 SunOS 5.10: Dummy Patch*
> 139555 -- < 08 RS-  11 SunOS 5.10: Kernel Patch
> 139967 -- < 01 RS-   5 SunOS 5.10: usr/sbin/rpc.metad patch
> 139969 -- < 01 RS-   4 SunOS 5.10: sh patch
> 139982 -- < 02 RS-   7 SunOS 5.10: e1000g patch
> 139986 -- < 01 RS-   5 SunOS 5.10: rpc.ypupdated patch
> 140074 -- < 05 RS-   4 SunOS 5.10: pam_krb5.so.1 patch
> 140391 -- < 02 RS-   7 SunOS 5.10: nscd patch
> 140397 -- < 06 RS-   6 SunOS 5.10: lp patch
> 140399 -- < 01 RS-   7 SunOS 5.10: in.ftpd patch
> 140455 -- < 01 RS- 133 X11 6.6.2: VNC Viewer patch
> 140559 -- < 01 RS-   4 SunOS 5.10: cron patch
> 140563 -- < 01 RS-   4 SunOS 5.10: ptsl patch
> 141014 -- < 01 RS-  60 SunOS 5.10: /usr/bin/dircmp patch
>
> As you can it displays "R" patches as well.
>
> Is that normal and am I experiencing a bug?
>
> I am using latest pca.
> # pca -v
> pca 20090408-01
>
>
> --
> Asif Iqbal
> PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
>
>


-- 
Asif Iqbal
PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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