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Hi Jeff,<br>
<br>
The --minimal option never mapped to the contents of the CPU.<br>
<br>
The --minimal option is mapped to the Recommended Patch Cluster
contents, not the CPU. The CPU is effectively an archived version of
the Recommended Patch Cluster, so the 2 are closely related. <br>
That said, with changes that we made to merge the Recommended Patch
Cluster and former Sun Alert Cluster (see <span class="title"></span><a
href="http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/merging_the_solaris_recommended_and"
target="_blank">Patch Corner - Merging the Solaris Recommended and Sun
Alert Patch Clusters</a> for the details), we now only add the lowest
revision of a patch required to address SunAlert issues (Security, Data
Loss and System Availability).<br>
This means that over time customers need to apply less patches to keep
up to date with critical fixes.<br>
<br>
This is the reason that some patches in patchdiag.xref that are
Recommended are now longer the latest revs of patches.<br>
<br>
The only exception to this rule is patches required for the patch
utilities on Solaris to function correctly; these patches (eg. 119254)
are always kept at the latest available revision.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
-Don<br>
<br>
<br>
Jeff wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:BANLkTi=sO96vBSn0jS818S8_vGZG5vLNBg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I've been using the --minimal option for pca since it came
out to standardize patching based on the most recent CPU. Today I
noticed that is looks like Oracle dropped support for in in
patchdiag.xref.<br>
<br>
I'm using the patchdiag.xref I downloaded on May 15th and trying to
apply the patches from the April/2011 CPU using pca. I find these
patch discrepancies between what is in the CPU and what is in
patchdiag.xref:<br>
<br>
<b>April CPU patchdiag</b> <br clear="all">
119254-80 119254-81<br>
122911-24 122911-25<br>
125215-03 125215-04<br>
141552-03 141552-04<br>
143559-07 143559-08<br>
144488-11 144488-14<br>
<br>
Previously, patdiag.xref would list both the version of the patch that
was in the CPU and the most recent version.<br>
<br>
Guess the question is to Martin or Don: Do you know if this is
intentional?<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Jeff<br>
</blockquote>
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