Hi,
It applied patch 114176-05
114176 -- < 05 --- 999 Sun Cluster 3.0: OPS Core Patch for Solaris 9
There is no mention of this patch in showrev -p and uname -a is -- >
SunOS joebloggs 5.8 Generic_117350-38 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-880
Thanks for the report. It's incorrect behaviour - the patch shouldn't be
listed by pca on a Solaris 8 machine.
How did pca decide this patch was needed
pca takes the list of packages (including package versions) and compares
it to the packages patched by a patch (information taken from
patchdiag.xref). If there is a match, the patch can be be applied. This
works because usually packages have different version numbers on
different releases of Solaris (or unbundled software).
If you take a look at 111857 and 114176 in the patchdiag.xref file,
you'll see that they patch exacly the same packages:
SUNWscucm:3.0.0,REV=2000.10.01.01.00
SUNWudlm:3.0.0,REV=2000.10.01.01.00
SUNWudlmr:3.0.0,REV=2000.10.01.01.00
That's why patchadd didn't refuse to install the patch either. It's one
of those rare cases where Sun failed to either use different version
numbers (if the software/patch is different on Solaris 8 and 9) or
produced two patches with the same fixes. pca won't rely on the Synopsis
line (".. for Solaris 8"), and there's no other way to decide automatically.
Whenever such patches are reported to me, I add a workaround into pca
itself. I've done that for 111857/114176 now as well in the current pca
development release. The problem shouldn't show up again.
Martin.
