[pca] pca patch recursion

[Martin Paul]

Hi Jeremy,

> Does anybody know of a way to make pca recurse and look to see if a patch
> which has obsoleted the listed patch is installed on the system?

Not directly. But you can maybe use the "chkmin" script I've put onto 
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/contrib.html - its primary use is to 
check whether certain patches are installed in a given minimum revision, and it 
will also follow patch obsoletions.

Example:

   $ ./chkmin 118816-04
   $

This means that either 118816-04 or a patch which obsoletes it (127885-01 in 
that case) is installed. This is useful if you have a list of "required patches" 
for a certain application, which you can then be reduced to those which must be 
installed. Maybe that's what you're after anyway?

Martin.