Don, Thanks for the explanation. You saved my Oracle Sales Rep an irate phone call. I have spent the past month+ trying to get my Sun/Oracle support renewed, and it was not a smooth experience. I got passed around from person to person so I never knew who I was supposed to be dealing with. And as I got passed around, I kept getting dropped/forgotten about. I figured that the support software had cut me off after the end of June because the sales people were still screwing around with my PO and hadn't re-enabled my support. But I digress.
--- Jeff Earickson Colby College On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Don O'Malley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Martin/All, > > There has been no patchdiag.xref released since July7th due to the MOS 5.3 > release over the weekend. > > MOS 5.3 is a major release for ex-Sun customers, as this release integrated a > more native experience for Sun patches on MOS. > I realize that this may not be of interest to a lot of folks using PCA, but > there are some significant changes as a result of the MOS 5.3 release, > including: > - Patch metadata is now available for Sun patches from the MOS patch > information page, including patch size, # downloads & checksum info. > - Patch README files for Sun patches are now hosted natively by MOS (so there > is no longer any need to punchout to sspatch for patch README's > > In order to enable this release, we needed to stop publishing patches (and > reports like patchdiag.xref) over the weekend, so while there has been no > updated version of patchdiag available, there has also been no additional > patches released. > > Normal service should resume later today, so there'll be an updated version > of patchdiag tomorrow. > > Sorry for any confusion. > > Best, > -Don > > Martin Paul wrote: > > BABAULT.Daniel wrote: > > No problem for me > > patchdiag-110707.xref 07-Jul-2011 23:11 3.4M patchdiag-110708.xref > 08-Jul-2011 23:11 3.4M patchdiag-110709.xref 09-Jul-2011 23:11 3.4M > patchdiag-110710.xref 10-Jul-2011 23:11 3.4M > > But if you compare the files, you'll see that nothing has changed since > Jul/07/11: > > $ pca -X . -x > Downloading xref file to /tmp/patchdiag.xref > Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (1/1) > $ head -1 patchdiag.xref > ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Jul/07/11 ## > $ > > Even when there are no new patches, the date in the header usually gets > updated. > > Don? :) > > Martin. > > > -- > > Don O'Malley > Manager,Patch System Test > Revenue Product Engineering | Solaris | Hardware > East Point Business Park, Dublin 3, Ireland > Phone: +353 1 8199764 > Team Alias: [email protected]
