[pca] unable to patch SunStudio

Willi Burmeister wib at cs.uni-kiel.de
Wed Mar 31 11:38:36 CEST 2010


Hi Martin,

> >After removing SunStudio 11 (SPROlang) I'm no longer able to patch 
> >the other two compiler suites. I'm only getting:
> >
> >  No Packages from patch 141860-03 are installed on the system.
> 
> Interesting. I thought that patchadd would deal with such a situation 
> just fine. Out of interest - do the patches for the other two versions 
> show up as "missing" in pca's output?

yes they do.

> They should, as pca will strip the 
> .2/.3 postfix from the package names and use the version string for 
> identification. I expected patchadd to do the same; BTW - if you don't 
> have the most current patch utilities patch installed, installing it 
> might be worth a try.

I already tried this but without luck. It seems I'm hit by a patchadd bug.
I'll open a service call.

Thanks for your comments.

Willi





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