patchadd Command Displays an Error That It Is Terminating

One of the following benign messages might be displayed in the Maintenance_Update_log in the /var/sadm/install_data directory:

One or more patch packages included in
XXXXXX-YY are not installed on this system.

Patchadd is terminating.

Or:

Installation of XXXXXX-YY failed:
Attempting to patch a package that is not installed.

These messages indicate the patchadd command could not locate on your system any of the packages that the command intended to patch, so the indicated patch was skipped.

The message is displayed when the patchadd command discovers a discrepancy while installing a patch of one architecture onto a system with a different architecture. For example, a sun4u patch on a sun4m system.

This message might also be the result of one or more missing packages. The package might have been removed by the administrator, or was never installed. An example of this type of error would be if a cluster that was smaller than the Entire Distribution was installed.

Workaround: Ignore the error message.