Thanks for all your replies. I have got machine-specific patch downloads
working with explorer output.
Unfortunately due to disk space restrictions, keeping gunzipped & untar'd
explorers for all of our Solaris systems is not feasible.
The pca man page says:
" The output of the pkginfo, showrev and uname commands is used to gather
information about the system."
So I just need to save the contents of <explorerdir>/ patch+pkg/* and
sysconfig/uname*.out for each target system in order to generate the list of
patches to download. Is this correct?
The alternative is to explode each explorer in turn and delete it
afterwards, which is doable, it just seems long-winded.
Thanks again.
Gordon
-----Original Message-----
From: pca [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: 30 July 2014 08:47
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Question: Downloading patches to a central server using
pca-generated patch reports
Am 29.07.2014 21:24, schrieb Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia):
> Perhaps the solution could be to implement a third type of report? We
> already have two types (–list and –listhtml) perhaps there should be a
> third option to list only the patches and not all the other data?
PCA's "--format" option can create reports and lists in whatever format is
required (see e.g. Roland's reply). But the best solution for the original
problem is exactly as you state:
> What I do for this issue is different. I don’t try to re-use the report
> output as subsequent input. I just keep the files for the --fromfiles=DIR
> around for reuse. I run the report with –list then when I’m ready to
> download patches I remove the –list and put –download in its place;
> rerunning the same command. Since I use the same --fromfiles=DIR each time
> it downloads the correct patches for that same report list which was
> previously generated.
hth,
Martin.
