Sparc Solaris 9/u8 "Errors were found" and "Requires a patch that could ."
"smpatch analyze" :
Errors were found.
112960-37 SunOS 5.9: patch libsldap ldap_cachemgr libldap
117177-02 SunOS 5.9: lib/gss module Patch
Error: Requires a patch that could not be found
114356-08 SunOS 5.9: /usr/bin/ssh Patch
Error: Requires a patch that could not be found
113273-11 SunOS 5.9: /usr/lib/ssh/sshd Patch
Error: Requires a patch that could not be found
Tip from Sun user to Sun:
Please make errors like this a bit more clear: The error (as far as I can tell) is due to 112960-37 not being able to be installed because one of its dependencies is withdrawn and the rest of the patches "Requires a patch that could not be found" really seem to not want to install due to depending on 112960-37.
When coming up with things that are in the same category as yum, up2date and windowsupdate, one should strive to keep Solaris the "cleanest" of the bunch - when a patch is withdrawn all the dependencies should also be withdrawn to keep people's update staging machines from generating errors like this.
INFO:
# uname -a
SunOS ultra 5.9 Generic_118558-28 sun4u sparc
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 9 9/05 s9s_u8wos_05 SPARC
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 04 August 2005
smpatch w/ 112945-40 applied.
