[pca] chkmin ignoring obsoletions if an older version of the patch is installed

[Ateeq Altaf]

On my system I have the following patches related to 'providing' 124204:

bash-3.00# patchadd -p | grep 124204
Patch: 120473-12 Obsoletes: 117463-05 118890-03 119985-02 120469-07 121006-02 
121278-01 121294-01 122535-01 123330-01 123350-01 123356-02 123911-01 124204-04 
124280-01 125795-01 Requires: 118833-36 122640-05 123839-01 Incompatibles: 
Packages: SUNWcsr SUNWcsl SUNWkvm SUNWtecla SUNWperl584core SUNWperl584usr 
SUNWkrbu SUNWopenssl-libraries SUNWvolu SUNWscpu SUNWzfskr SUNWzfsr SUNWsmapi 
SUNWzfsu SUNWcslr SUNWfmd SUNWdtrc SUNWsndmu
Patch: 124204-03 Obsoletes: Requires: 123839-01 122640-05 118833-25 
Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWzfskr SUNWzfsr SUNWzfsu SUNWfmd


Running chkmin on this system tells me I need to install patch 124204-04 when 
that obviously isn't the case:

bash-3.00# ./chkmin 124204-04
124204-04

I've made the following addition to not overwrite a higher patch rev with a 
lower one in the code, which I think should address the problem but not sure if 
it's too simple and I've missed something:

bash-3.00# diff -u chkmin.orig chkmin
--- chkmin.orig Fri May 13 18:42:26 2011
+++ chkmin  Fri May 13 18:53:46 2011
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   chomp; $_ =~ s/Requires:.*$//;
   foreach my $i (split (/[, ]+/, $_)) {
 next unless ($i =~ /^(\d{6})-(\d{2})$/);
+next if (exists $p{$1} and $p{$1} ge $2);
 $p{$1}=$2;
   }
}

Has anyone else come across this issue?

Thanks
Ateeq

Ateeq A Altaf
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Re: [pca] chkmin ignoring obsoletions if an older version of the patch is installed

[Martin Paul]

Ateeq Altaf wrote:

I've made the following addition to not overwrite a higher patch rev with a
lower one in the code, which I think should address the problem but not sure
if it's too simple and I've missed something:


Your fix is perfectly fine, and I've integrated it into my version of "chkmin".

Seems as if you're the first to come across this issue - thanks a lot for 
reporting it and providing a fix!


Martin.