[pca] sun studio patches for linux?

[Martin Paul]

Gerard Henry wrote:
> i'm wondering if anybody here has a better solution to deal with the 
> following process:

Here's a few things which might at least ease the process. Collect this 
output from any Solaris system and copy the three *.out files to the 
Linux machine once:

   uname -a > uname.out
   showrev -p > showrev.out
   pkginfo -x > pkginfo.out

You can then run pca directly on the Linux machine from then on, using 
-f/--fromfiles. Also use pca's pattern option instead of grep, and pca's 
format option instead of awk:

   $ pca -f . -p 'Studio 12.*Linux' -l total -H --format '%p-%c'
   124874-03
   124877-02

Personally, I would use this output in a script, which would then loop 
through all the patches and extract the package list from each REAMDE with:

   pca -r $patch | grep 'sun.*rpm'

Now look up each of the packages with rpm, and see if the version in the 
README is newer than the one installed. If so, install the rpm update.

The script is left as an exercise to the user, but sh/sed/awk or perl 
should get you there quickly. I can hardly resist doing it myself, but 
luckily I have no Linux system with Sun Studio to test :)

Martin.