little help wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply. What is the -askauth parameter? I dont see it
as an option.
It's deprecated, as it's the default now. Previously it was required to make PCA
ask for authentication data if it isn't provided via a config file or an option.
Nowadays PCA will ask for it anyway.
I too use an NFS dir and patch Solaris 8, 9, 10 and x86. I think I would need
to run this command from each host to get the "full" list. I am basically
looking for a way to run the download from my main proxy server for all
builds, etc.
One option would be to run "pca --download" on at least one machine per OS
release. You could delete the download patches on the client right away if all
you want is to pre-fill the proxy.
The elegant way is to use PCA's "--fromfiles" option. Using that, you can run
PCA on the proxy server just as if it was run on the client directly. Basically,
you collect necessary information from each sample client once like that:
$ uname -a > /nfs/proxy/client1/uname.out
$ showrev -p > /nfs/proxy/client1/showrev.out
$ pkginfo -x > /nfs/proxy/client1/pkginfo.out
Then you can run PCA on the proxy to list/download patches for each client:
proxy$ pca --fromfiles /nfs/proxy/client1 --download
proxy$ pca --fromfiles /nfs/proxy/client2 --download
...
Hope that helps,
Martin.
