Patch 124171-01 fails to install on an Ultra-80 and a V210 models. I installed it manually to get the message that the "SUNWscnbase-r" package is not installed so the patch is aborted.
The Ultra-80 runs Solaris 10 release 03/2005. The V210 runs Solaris 10 01/2006. I typically load everything in the installs so this patch should not have been recommended to them.
> The packages are inculded in the 6/06 release.
So why is the patch being offerred for earlier versions?
What is the fix for this?
I'm not very familiar with the Solaris update strategy but I would have hoped that applying all patches to an earlier release would take you to the 6/06 release level - but it seems that is not the case. So do I have to actually upgrade to the latest release?
root hypert /var/sadm/spool # smpatch analyze
124187-01 SunOS 5.10_x86: flash issue with SUNWscn-base due to broken package
Maybe the patchinfo wasn't specific enough?
root hypert /var/sadm/spool/124187-01.jar.dir/124187-01 # more patchinfo
PATCHINFOVERSION="1.0"
PATCHID=124187-01
PATCH_CORRECTS='BaseOS.SolarisCore-5.10'
PATCH_ARCH='i386'
PATCH_OS='SunOS'
PATCH_OSRELEASE='5.10'
PATCH_PROPERTIES='clientroot'
This seems to indicate all Solaris 10 systems would need this patch - but I don't know if UM uses this info when deciding which patches to recommend.
You are right that the patch metadata is not correct. Sun UC does use this info when deciding which patches to recommend.
CR 6485617 was opened last week to request that the metadata for the patch be corrected so that it is only recommended on platforms that have the packages to be patched.
