[pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

[Martin Paul]

dpecka wrote:
>> pca does not use column #7 to match patches to the installed OS release, 
>> as this information has proven to be unreliable in the past. Some 
>> patches have been described as "Unbundled" although they applied to e.g. 
>> Solaris 10. Therefore, pca uses the information about the included 
>> packages instead (#9).
> 
> tru dat, thanks for explanation, i expected something like this.

I just tried an example - patch 121036 is specified "Unbundled" in the 
xref file, still the patchfinder finds it when searching for "Solaris 
10" patches. It must use (some combination of that column and) the 
package information as well.

> eg. should pca support a functionality which is probably sometimes not
> very reliable but sunsolve supports it by using same way as pca could
> without any big coding work?

I'm always open for new ideas, but here I'm not sure how useful it would 
be (e.g. all "Solaris 10" patches isn't easily defined, and the outcome 
actually might confuse). I also think that it would be quite some work, 
as at the end one would need a kind of query language with logical 
operators, to use e.g. "OS=Solaris 10 AND (Synopsis=GNOME OR 
ReleasesAfter=2010/01/01)" or something like that.

Anyway, what kind of queries are you (or is everybody) using patchfinder 
for, that pca doesn't support? Maybe I'm just missing something which is 
extremely useful.

Martin.