[Info-vax] [DCPS V2.7] requires VMS83A_USB ECO

[Paul Anderson]

In article <4b310eff$1 at news.langstoeger.at>,
 peter at langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) wrote:

> I installed DCPS V2.7 (months ago) and it says it requires VMS83A_USB 
> ECO.
> 
> The VMS83A_UPDATE V10 (at this time) includes VMS83A_USB, but was not 
> sufficient for DCPS V2.7. I had to install VMS83A_USB before (or 
> after) VMS83A_UPDATE to get DCPS V2.7 successfully installed then.

Oh, dear.

The DCPS V2.7 installation procedure checks for the existence of the 
USB ECO kit appropriate for the OpenVMS version and architecture.

The UPDATE kits install the contents of the individual kits but not by 
their individual names.  So when you do a PRODUCT SHOW HISTORY command, 
you'll see VMS83A_UPDATE but not VMS83A_USB.

This "breaks" the DCPS installation procedure.  The DCPS$PCSI_CONFIGURE 
command procedure will have to be changed to check for the appropriate 
minimum versions of the UPDATE kit in addition to the USB kit.

This is an easy change.  I could do it but no longer work for HP so 
can't repackage the kit.  But since the procedure is distributed with 
the DCPS kit, I could post my suggestion on what coding changes would 
need to be made.

> Does anyone know, what causes this behaviour (eg. what file/item is 
> missing for DCPS V2.7) and if VMS83A_UPDATE V12 does also show this 
> behaviour? Or is the bug in DCPS V2.7 (PCSI description)?

This will be a problem on any system that installed the USB kit only 
from the UPDATE kit.  And the checking is not done in the 
PCSI$DESCRIPTION file, but in the aforementioned command procedure.

Paul