[pca] Fix to PCA so it stops trying to apply Veritas patches to wrong OS

Martin Paul martin.paul at univie.ac.at
Mon Jul 16 12:30:12 CEST 2012


Chris,

sorry for the late reply. I'm stuck in the middle of a move of our 
research group to a new building (and being integrated into a larger 
organisation), so it's not easy to find some spare time for PCA issues 
right now.

As for VRTS patches, you're right about the basic problem. I've added 
the extra rules for 119303/119304/119305 to PCA now for a beginning.

I'm wondering though whether all of the other patches you list are real 
world problems: While many patches are listed as unbundled, their 
package version is often specific enough for PCA to match it to a 
certain OS release or architecture. E.g. often the packages version of 
VRTSxxx is different for sparc and i386, so the package in question will 
never appear on the wrong architecture.

Have you seen all of the patches listed wrongly on a real world system, 
or did you grep all Veritas patches from patchdiag.xref to compile the 
rules?

Don't get me wrong - I'll happily add exceptions for all affected 
patches to PCA (and I still think this is a viable solution, as once 
added they will apply to everybody, so most people never have to 
bother). But on the other hand I only want to add required rules, as the 
list has to be maintained, too.

Martin.



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