[pca] [Fwd: Unbundled patches showing up when listing missing security patches]

[Martin Paul]

Jeff wrote:
> Thanks Martin.  An example of the patches I saw is 138135-01.  In my case,
> these are patches that are associated with packages that are part of another
> Sun product but are not part of the OS, or at least I assume they are, even
> though I don't see a package associated with that patch in patchdiag.

Right, it doesn't have package information associated with it in the 
xref, and therefore there's no way for pca to check whether this patch 
applies to a certain system or not - a truely unbundled patch.

If you really see that patch listed in "pca -l missingrs" output, please 
send me debug output (add "--debug"), because that would be a bug. Or 
did I misunderstand what you're doing?

Dealing with real unbundled non-patchadd patches is difficult, as 
there's no way to determine whether a patch is already installed or 
whether it applies to a system. There's some information in pca's docs 
how to use "pca -l unbundled" to at least get notified of new unbundled 
patches/revisions, but that's far from real patch management either.

Martin.