<div>Martin,</div>
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<div>That is exactly what I'm after. Many thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a try.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Jeremy<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Martin Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@par.univie.ac.at">martin@par.univie.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi Jeremy,
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Does anybody know of a way to make pca recurse and look to see if a patch<br>which has obsoleted the listed patch is installed on the system?<br>
</blockquote><br></div>Not directly. But you can maybe use the "chkmin" script I've put onto <a href="http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/contrib.html" target="_blank">http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/contrib.html</a> - its primary use is to check whether certain patches are installed in a given minimum revision, and it will also follow patch obsoletions.<br>
<br>Example:<br><br> $ ./chkmin 118816-04<br> $<br><br>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?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Martin.<br><br></font></blockquote></div><br>