James,
I am not understanding how this works, if the dependency patches are
downloaded, I do not see them. It downloads the patchnumber.zip. I unzip
that to reveal the patch directory and inside there is the patch read me
and what looks like a bunch of packages. Not sure where the dependencies
are handled.
You probably specified not only the patch id (e.g. 137137) but a patch
if including revision (e.g. 137137-09). In the second case, pca will not
check patch dependencies, but will list or download exactly this one
patch. What you want is probably something like:
pca -i 127127 137137 138888
Try with "-l" instead of "-i" at first, as this will show the
dependencies. Usually you only have to specify the latest kernel patch,
as it will require all previous kernel patches anyway.
If you want an explicite outdated revision of a patch, pca won't be able
to check the dependencies for that, because there is no information
about old revisions in the patchdiag.xref file used by pca. In that
case, download the patch and check the READMEs for required patches.
Installation of the patch will fail unless all required patches are
there, so you can't break anything.
I recommend sticking to the most current revision of any patch you
install, though.
Martin.
