http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/solaris/popular/2008-07-30T04:30:44-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2008-07-30T04:30:44-07:00Benjamin Sergeanthttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4039626/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576397-listing-the-packagepatches-dependencies-of-a-binar/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576397 by <a href="/recipes/users/4039626/">Benjamin Sergeant</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/solaris/">solaris</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/system/">system</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/unix/">unix</a>). Revision 2. </p> <p>Print (1) packages used by a binary, and (2) the list of installed patches related to these packages. If you have a binary that works with Solaris 10 update N, but doesn't with Solaris 10 update N-2, run this script on both platform and it will help you to find the patches you're looking for.</p> <p>(1) is retrieved:</p> <ul> <li>By using pldd(pid) on the process you want to trace to get a list of loaded shared library </li> <li>By retrieving in the main /var/sadm/install/contents database the list of package related to these shared libraries</li> </ul> <p>(2) is retrieved by parsing the output of the showrev -p command, given as input of this script</p>