[pca] patching Sol 10 branded zones hosted on Sol 11 (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Martin Paul]

Hi Michael,

personally I haven't used PCA on Solaris 11 with branded zones, but the 
uname output you show should not be the problem.

The only difference ("Generic_150400-18" vs "Generic_Virtual") doesn't 
matter for PCA, as it doesn't use that information. So you problem must 
be elsewhere.

If "pca -yi missingrs" doesn't show any patches, maybe PCA is right 
about it? Are there any R/S patches listed when you run "pca -yi missing".

You can send me the three files needed for --fromfiles from the affected 
system, so I can try it myself.

> In the midst of this work the Solaris 10 system that is used as our pca proxy
> has gone fubar'd and access to its replacement hardware (a hand-me-down) has been
> delayed until Feb.  So in addition to trying to troubleshoot the missing vs missingrs
> issue I am also trying to move our PCA proxy over to the Solaris 11 patch repo system.

Getting up the PCA proxy on another system shouldn't be too much work, 
there are step-by-step instructions in the PCA manual. You can use any 
system running apache (also Linux, if that helps).

hth,
Martin.