Sun Update Connection-System / Hosted, Patch Manager & PatchPro Forum - smpatch analyze leaving
I've noticed 'smpatch analyze' seems to be routinely missing some patches. When comparing what smpatch recommends vs. something like PCR, we keep getting a few discrepancies. When you input individual patches to smpatch however, it will report as needing that patch.
For example:
#smpatch analyze
109962-14 Hardware, FC-AL Disks: Download program and FC-AL Disk Drive firmware
120812-15 OpenGL 1.5: OpenGL Patch for Solaris
123252-01 SunOS 5.10: platform/SUNW,Netra-T2000 patch
118706-01 SunOS 5.10: Creator and Creator3D: FFB Graphics Patch
PCR says this system needs patch 120094-10, a security patch for xscreensaver
#smpatch analyze -i 120094-10
120094-10 X11 6.6.2: xscreensaver patch
Has anyone else noticed this? Or is there some reason smpatch should be skipping this patch?
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cbcrawfoa] at [2007-11-26 23:16:00]
# 1
Another example -
Comparing two identical systems, we had these Fibre channels patches recommended and installed on one system, but not the other:
119130-33 SunOS 5.10: Sun Fibre Channel Device Drivers
125166-01 SunOS 5.10: Qlogic ISP Fibre Channel Device Driver
The package installations are identical on both, yet smpatch analyze recommends these patches for one system and not the other.
Running smpatch analyze -i 125166-01 will return with both patches, indicating they should be installed.
# 2
With regards to your first post, I have asked on our internal interest alias to shed some light on the recommendation of this particular patch.
With regards to your second post, are you absoultely positive that the systems are identical?
A diff of the 'prtconf', 'pkginfo' and 'showrev -p' should be enough to determine this, but there may be other factors including different revisions of Java between the two machines.
If these outputs do not show any major differences I would recomment opening a support call with your local solutions center.
