SUMMARY: SMPatch

Thanks to Rainer Heilke and Erek Adams, who each suggested this is a case of
public vs. private patches, but that's not it. Erek also suggested that I run
'smpatch get' to be sure that I wasn't just looking at "recommended" in the
patchdb. That wasn't it, either, but a very good suggestion!

The answer is that my script is looking for the absence of "CURRENT" in the
"Latest Revision" column of the output of patchdiag, and if it's not then it
will indicate this patch is not current. Here is some output where my script
thinks that 108725 needs to be updated:

108714 08 CURRENT CDE 1.4: libDtWidget patch
108723 01 CURRENT SunOS 5.8: /kernel/fs/lofs and /kernel/fs/sparcv9/lofs
patch
108725 22 21 SunOS 5.8: st driver patch

The answer is, my script needs to be changed so that if the latest revision is
not "CURRENT" then test if it's greater than the installed revision. I did too
much RTFM

-Sal


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Hi Gurus-

So, I run "smpatch" with the 'analyze,' 'download,' 'update,' and 'add' commands
to get a list of what needs to be added. Consistently, smpatch does not add a
particular patch when explicitly listed via '-x idlist=<file>' but it does work
via '-i <patch-id>'. OK, so I can live with that.

Now I have an Ultra-5 running the latest-greatest 5.8 according to smpatch, but
when I tried to compare it to what I was used to with "patchdiag" I have a list
of patches that smpatch didn't even look at, and MANY of the latest patches that
smpatch installed are out of date according to patchdiag.

So, what gives?

Thanks,
-Sal

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