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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have a newly installed Solaris 10 U11 host. I patched it a couple days ago with “pca --minimal missingr”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Today, when I run “pca -l --minimal missingr“ using the new xref it says:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Feb/28/13</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Host: T2000_hostname (SunOS 5.10/Generic_147147-26/sparc/sun4v)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">List: missingr-minimal (1/1)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Patch IR CR RSB Age Synopsis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">------ -- - -- --- --- -------------------------------------------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">148338 -- < 03 R-- 1 SunOS 5.10: s9_brand patch</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The host has 148161-02 installed because it’s in the U11 release.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here is the trace of the patch obsolescence in order,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">starting from the current recommended through the newest:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">139944-01 has the “R” flag. It was obsoleted by 148161-02</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">148161-02 does NOT have “R” flag. It was obsoleted by 148338-03.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">148338-03 does NOT have “R” flag.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Based on my understanding, PCA’s recommendation to install 148338-03 is not correct when using the --minimal flag.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It should have seen that the currently installed version, 148161-02, was already newer than the recommended, 139944-01 version, therefore no newer patch is needed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This behavior occurs in all recent versions of PCA, both development and stable.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neil G. Brookins<br>
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