[pca] Does PCA Use the OS Field?

[Jason Greathouse]

My question is, does PCA use the OS field in the patchdiag.xref when trying to 
determine which patches to apply to a system?

I'm trying to create a custom xref file to include the latest Vertias patches to 
use with PCA. I'd like to include patches for all somewhat recent versions of 
Solaris(8, 9 and 10). I have a working file, patches apply fine, except that 
versions of patches I've marked as 8 or 9 are still trying to be applied to 10, 
and vise versa. So they come back as failed. This is not the end of the world, 
but annoying. 

Here is an example of the xref line that PCA is still trying to apply to a S10 
system:

142633|07|Feb/01/11|R| | |  |9|sparc;|VRTSvxfs:5.1,REV=7Oct2009;| VRTSvxfs 
5.1SP1RP1: Patch for File System 5.1-Sun5.9

[:~]# pca -l --nocheckxref --xrefdir=/root
Using /root/patchdiag.xref from Jul/26/11
Host:  (SunOS 5.10/Generic_144488-17/sparc/sun4u)
List: missing (7/1538)

Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------
142633 -- < 07 R-- 181  VRTSvxfs 5.1SP1RP1: Patch for File System 5.1-Sun5.9
...

If PCA doesn't consider this field, is there another way of modifying the xref 
to limit a patch to a specific OS?

Thanks,
Jason Greathouse