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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link="#1F86FF" vlink="#005DC9"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Hi all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>We have been looking at PCA as a solution to our patching requirements and so far it seems to be exactly what we are looking for.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>However I am a little confused about the way PCA deals with Recommended patches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>We have downloaded a recommended patch bundle from Oracle and the associated patchdiag.xref file. When we list the missing Recommended patches we see the following reported by PCA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>#pca –l missingr<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>118712 23 < 24 R-- 438 SunOS 5.10: Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator Patch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>This suggests that patch 118712 version 23 needs to be updated with version 24.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>However version 24 is not flagged as recommended by Oracle and is therefore not present in the recommended downloaded patch bundle. The reference to that patch in the associated patchdiag.xref looks like this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>118712|07|Oct/25/05| | |O| B|10|<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>118712|23|Mar/19/09|R| |O| |10|<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>118712|24|Aug/06/10| | | | |10|<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>As version 24 is reported by PCA as recommended we get errors as the patch is not included in the downloaded recommended bundle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>This seems to happen whenever a previously recommended patch has been flagged as obsolete. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>I would appreciate any assistance/advice on where I am going wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Regards and thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:windowtext'>Jon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999'>Jonathan Todd<br>Midrange Hosting Services<br>HP ENTERPRISE SERVICES<br>Telephone <a href="tel:+44%201915043458"><span style='color:blue'>+44 1915043458</span></a><br><br>Email <a href="mailto:jonathan.todd@hp.com"><span style='color:blue'>jonathan.todd@hp.com</span></a><br>Floor 3 - Mercury House<br>Cobalt Business Park<br>Newcastle NE270BY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>