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# 8  
Old 08-19-2014
Can you provide a factual example of a required package and its expected minimal version?

After patching, the version might be unchanged. That's the whole point of patching vs updating, but patching only apply to Solaris OS packages, not for third party/external ones.

Moreover, the whole package system has radically changed between Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.
# 9  
Old 08-19-2014
Ok. For example - I need package libC and patch 119963-26 or higher(Shared library patch for C++). So what I have planned to do is to take machine with those patch installed and take version of SUNWlibC package (5.10 at my machine) there - as minimum...
You says - it will not work? What can work?
# 10  
Old 08-19-2014
There is no ad hoc toll I'm aware of to achieve what you want but its not that complex to implement.

Under Solaris 10, you check if a package is installed with "pkginfo", its version doesn't change when patched. You can check if a patch is installed with "patchadd -p" (will tell you all patches installed). You need to parse patchadd output to make sure the installed patch version, if any, is newer than the one you want. Beware that new patches might have superseded the one you want (they are shown in the "Obsoletes:" field.)
# 11  
Old 08-24-2014
10x. I wll try to implement it this way.
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