[pca] Non-existing patch

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Fri Oct 28 12:11:28 CEST 2011


Hi Don and all,

In the READMEs of the new patches 124630-60 and 119534-29 a note has been added:

   NOTE: The list of 'patches required with this patch' (above) has been
   modified from the list specified at patch creation time. The reason for
   the modification is that one or more of the required patches was
   either never released or withdrawn after its release. The following
   substitutions (which are guaranteed to satisfy the original requirements)
   were therefore made:

   124628-03 replaces 126677-02

This replacement is a good thing, but unfortunately it has only taken place in 
the README and not in the "patchinfo" files nor in patchdiag.xref - those still 
refer to 126677-02 (which, as the note says, has never been released). Now PCA 
has always taken care of that by internally replacing 126677-02 with 124628-03 
when resolving dependencies, so there's no new problem.

It would be nice, though, now that the problem has been noticed, to fix this 
issue in all places (patch README, patchinfo, patchdiag.xref) to make this 
consistent again.

The same applies to the corresponding x86 patches, BTW (non-existant 126678 
required by 124631 and 119535). And just for completeness, here is the list of 
all non-existant patches to be found as required patches in patchdiag.xref, and 
how they are taken care of in PCA:

   ($r eq "125077-02") && ($r="120011-09"); # 119757
   ($r eq "125078-02") && ($r="120012-10"); # 119758
   ($r eq "125486-01") && ($r="120011-14"); # 126206
   ($r eq "125487-01") && ($r="120012-14"); # 126207
   ($r eq "114431-03") && ($r="117172-17"); # 116473

Read like this: Patch 119757 requires 125077-02, which doesn't exist, so it 
should require 120011-09 instead.

Martin.



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