Chris,
sorry for the late reply. I'm stuck in the middle of a move of our
research group to a new building (and being integrated into a larger
organisation), so it's not easy to find some spare time for PCA issues
right now.
As for VRTS patches, you're right about the basic problem. I've added
the extra rules for 119303/119304/119305 to PCA now for a beginning.
I'm wondering though whether all of the other patches you list are real
world problems: While many patches are listed as unbundled, their
package version is often specific enough for PCA to match it to a
certain OS release or architecture. E.g. often the packages version of
VRTSxxx is different for sparc and i386, so the package in question will
never appear on the wrong architecture.
Have you seen all of the patches listed wrongly on a real world system,
or did you grep all Veritas patches from patchdiag.xref to compile the
rules?
Don't get me wrong - I'll happily add exceptions for all affected
patches to PCA (and I still think this is a viable solution, as once
added they will apply to everybody, so most people never have to
bother). But on the other hand I only want to add required rules, as the
list has to be maintained, too.
Martin.
