Am 01.07.2014 22:16, schrieb Phredd Groves:
I am finding that on a small minority of our Solaris 10 systems, as I am attempting to install the latest OpenSSL patch (148071-13), that the installation sometimes fails, with the following output: ... The following requested patches do not update any packages installed on the system No Packages from patch 148071-13 are installed on the system.
That's a pretty clear message from patchadd. Could you try to use patchadd directly, outside of PCA?
I have found, though, that subsequent attempts may succeed with no notable change in the system configuration or to the pca configuration.
That's very unusual. Again - do your testing directly with patchadd and see if you can reproduce that.
PCA itself isn't really involved here.
It occurs to me that this may be related to how we use pca. We have a server set up that our systems pull the patches from and the patchdiag.xref from so that we keep patching consistent across machines, but I do not have the openssl patch incorporated into that, as I did not find any way to add a single patch to the xref data without adding every other patch that's come down the line since our last patch refresh.
Theoretically you can add single patches to the xref file, but you must take care of patch dependencies, which can get pretty complicated. It's best to use only unmodified xref files from Oracle instead.
Martin.
