[pca] Patch blacklist?

[David Stark]

> Hi,

Hi.

> I have this in my .pca file:
>
> pattern=!VERITAS|sendmail
>
> This says "use any patch NOT(VERITAS or sendmail)".  I don't want any patch 
> that touches VERITAS or sendmail code, so this excludes these patches via
> the "not" (!) argument.  Works great for me.

Ah. Missed the -p/--pattern option. Looks like this should be workable with:

    pattern=!Intranet Input Method Framework

It would be handy (and less prone to false positives?) if there was an option to match on the patch ID as well, but I think we're good to go for now.

Cheers Jeff.

> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College

Dave

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, David Stark wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:53:47 +0100
>> From: David Stark <dave at davidstark.name>
>> Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
>> To: pca at lists.univie.ac.at
>> Subject: [pca] Patch blacklist?
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Is there a way of completely blacklisting a patch in PCA without editing the script itself? --ignore (according to the docs, I've not had a chance to test) will apply an ignored patch if it's a dependency of another patch, so that may not work for us.
>>
>> The patches in question are the 120410-xx series - these cause our Oracle forms compiles to core dump, so we would like to exclude these until we can get a fix from Sun or Oracle.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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