[pca] Slightly OT -- trying to figure out why I need a patch

[Ray Van Dolson]

Have a fairly minimal Solaris 10 x86_64 install.  pca -l missingrs is
reporting that these two patches are required (among others of course):

119901 06 < 08 RS-  43 GNOME 2.6.0_x86: Gnome libtiff - library for reading and writing T
122213 32 < 33 RS- 107 GNOME 2.6.0_x86: GNOME Desktop Patch

However, there are no GNOME packages installed on the system:

  pkgchk -l -P gnome | grep Pathname

.. shows only a few files part of SUNWj5rt.

Oddly enough, if I check with showrev:

# showrev -p | egrep "119901|122213"
Patch: 119901-06 Obsoletes: 121098-01 Requires:  Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWPython
Patch: 122213-32 Obsoletes: 119367-05, 119371-10, 119413-08, 119543-06, 119893-01, 119909-02, 120134-04, 120136-03, 120297-01 Requires:  Incompatibles:  Packages: SUNWPython

It seems to think these patches have something to do with SUNWPython...

I stumbled across these two bugs via the README that mention the issue:

  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do;jsessionid=5c3a9026cabfcffffffffb60c376f8c393ed?bug_id=6691595
  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;jsessionid=bee10325bfc4304962c7552db19c?bug_id=6681251

So I can understand that this was a bug at some point, but will I
continually see these patches available via pca -l since earlier
revisions of the patch are on my system?

Actually installing the patches doesn't appear to do anything, but it's
a little confusing.

Short of blacklisting the patches, is there any way I can clean this up
better?  I can't remove the original patches as they appear to have
been installed with the Base OS...

Also, I notice that a pkginfo -l SUNWPython has GNOME2 listed under
Category, which seems odd.

Anyways, thanks for any insight.

Ray