[pca] Does PCA Use the OS Field?

[Martin Paul]

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

No. I found out that the contents of this field couldn't be relied upon, so it 
only uses packages+versions (and architecture). I've thought about scanning the 
synopsis field for strings like "SunOS 5.9" etc. but this isn't set in a 
consistent manner neither.

I'm dealing with that by adding extra rules to PCA itself for affected patches, 
which is kind of odd, but turned out to work fine.

Many of the VRTS patches are already checked in PCA, I've now added 
142633/142634, too. Go get the current development release of PCA (20110802-01) 
which should fix the issue.

Thanks for the report,

Martin.