[pca] Tweaking patchdiag.xref

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 17.02.2014 um 10:04 schrieb Martin Paul <martin.paul at univie.ac.at>:
> I don't have a straight solution for your task, but here are some ideas:
> 
> > 1) Is there any better way to do it?
> 
> Try using "pca --minimal missingr". The "minimal" option will make PCA work with the list of patches in the Recommended Patch Set. So this command should give you a list of missing applicable patches. When feeding PCA an empty "showrev" output (simulating an unpatches system), you should get the complete number of applicable patches.

Isn’t mkxref from
  http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/contrib.html
exactly what you are looking for?

>> 2) is pca considering that info (field #10)?
> 
> yes, it uses it to determine whether a patch is applicable or not.
> 
>> 3) If yes, does anybody have any tip where can I extract that info from?
> 
> besides patchdiag.xref? The "VERSION" line in the <pkg>/pkginfo files, to be found in the extracted patch zip file.
> 
>> 4) Did anybody have a requirement like this before? (compare against a fixed set of patches)
> 
> Not me.


Best regards

  — Dago
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