Okay, thank you very much for great explanation. The only operand which i was constantly using was *total ;) (but of course not for installing).
thanks for pca, it's pretty extraordinary tool. regards, daniel On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:51 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Sorry for the delay - I took advantage of the nice wheather and spent a few > days > hiking in Austria's Waldviertel. Very nice, BTW :) > > > i have found, that allrs list is bigger then default, which should be > > just *all (if i understand correctly to --man), so i was little bit > > shocked and suspecting if package selection algorithm is correct .. > > The default operand when running pca without an argument is "missing". This > group consists of all patches which apply to a system and which are not > installed in their most current revision. > > The "all" group on the other hand includes all patches which apply to a > system, > even if they are already installed. This is great for documentation: Keep a > list > of "pca -l all" from all of your systems and use grep to find out if a > certain > patch is installed on all of them (to which it applies). You wouldn't want to > install "all" on a system, therefore. > > The r/s/rs postfix is used to reduce any of the groups (missing, all, etc.) > to > those carrying the Recommended and/or Security flag. I think you just > misunderstood the difference between the default (missing) and all. The > sample > outputs you included look fine. > > > i'm also suggesting with this little proposal: please kick out patch > > unzipping phase while -I .. > > It's there for a reason: PCA needs to read the patch README and the patchinfo > file even when only pretending to install a patch, both to determine whether > a > reboot is required (this information is missing from the xref file, > unfortunately) and to get the list of included files for the "--safe" option. > Plus, it also tests whether the patch archive can be expanded successfully. > Even > though this could be done with the "-t" option to unzip, this isn't really > much > faster than extracting the archive to /tmp, and the is no "test" option which > could be used for tar archives (which PCA still supports for old patches). > > So theoretically I could work around the extraction when using "--pretend", > but > it needs changes in more than one place, and is probably not worth the effort. > > Martin. > > > regards and thanks martin for pca, > > ave daniel > > > > > > -- Best Regards / S Pozdravem Daniel Pecka -------------------------------------------------- SunOS Specialist, UNIX Administrator www.techniservit.cz mailto:<[email protected]> callto:<+0420603166533>
