Hi. Recently we patched some systems in our company. Several encountered this issue where a package from a later Update of Solaris 10 was applied. See this link for a short description: http://blogs.sun.com/patch/entry/do_not_apply_packages_from
PCA did not seem to handle this situation well, and seemed to produce an unbootable system. The fault seems to be partially installed patches, introduced through previously added *later update packages*, and then reported through showrev -p. Presumably PCA then assumes that this patch is already applied and then continues applying patches, including those for which the partially installed patch is a pre-requisite. My query is, can PCA be changed to recognise this situation? I see both patchdiag.xref and showrev -p have package names associated with each of the patches. Thanks! Dan.
