PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion ()

Dennis Clarke | 19 Feb 2012 21:04

yay 120744-02 SunOS 5.10: web console locale patch (de/es/fr/ja/ko/zh)


yay, patch 120744-02 is all fixed up !

now then, next item on the hit list is 118822-12 which is a kernel patch
from way back that is listed in the patchdiag.xref file thus :

core-sparc-SunOS5.10 # grep "^118822\|12" ../xref/patchdiag.xref
118822|12|| |S|O| B|10|119578-03;||SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch

Yep, that's all of it.

So I am guessing that the "O" in the sixth field means Obsolete ?

Can anyone confirm that ?

Dennis

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Martin Paul | 20 Feb 2012 10:05

Re: old revisions marked BAD and OBSOLETE

Dennis Clarke wrote:
> now then, next item on the hit list is 118822-12 which is a kernel patch
> from way back that is listed in the patchdiag.xref file thus :
> 
> core-sparc-SunOS5.10 # grep "^118822\|12" ../xref/patchdiag.xref
> 118822|12|| |S|O| B|10|119578-03;||SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch

I see four old revisions of 118822 in xref, which are marked BAD and OBSOLETE:

118822|12|| |S|O| B|10|...
118822|14|| |S|O| B|10|...
118822|15|| |S|O| B|10|...
118822|21|| |S|O| B|10|...

No idea why they're included. I think this came up before, but no one could 
provide an explanation yet. Do you have a real problem with these entries, or 
are you just wondering why they're there?

> So I am guessing that the "O" in the sixth field means Obsolete ?

Yes. So they can be ignored.

Martin.

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Dennis Clarke | 20 Feb 2012 15:46

Re: old revisions marked BAD and OBSOLETE


> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> now then, next item on the hit list is 118822-12 which is a kernel patch
>> from way back that is listed in the patchdiag.xref file thus :
>>
>> core-sparc-SunOS5.10 # grep "^118822\|12" ../xref/patchdiag.xref
>> 118822|12|| |S|O| B|10|119578-03;||SunOS 5.10: kernel Patch
>
> I see four old revisions of 118822 in xref, which are marked BAD and OBSOLETE:
>
> 118822|12|| |S|O| B|10|...
> 118822|14|| |S|O| B|10|...
> 118822|15|| |S|O| B|10|...
> 118822|21|| |S|O| B|10|...
>
> No idea why they're included. I think this came up before, but no one could
> provide an explanation yet. Do you have a real problem with these entries, or
> are you just wondering why they're there?

Well, there is this silly idea that I have that a single graph can
be made in which every patch in the patchdiag.xref can be plotted
with its dependencies connected. There seems to be a few oddball
points in there. Well, a few where the patch number exists and then
multiple revs that make no sense. See above.  :-\

>> So I am guessing that the "O" in the sixth field means Obsolete ?
>
> Yes. So they can be ignored.

  perfect , thanks !

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