[pca] Patch blacklist?

[Jeff Wieland]

You should be able use something like this in your .pca file:

ignore=116338
ignore=118383
ignore=125698

We had to add these since they started showing up on our Solaris 8
boxes.

We use a shell script wrapper around pca that set things up for our
Solaris 8 and 10 hosts:

#!/bin/ksh
/bin/uname -r | read UNAME_R
CFFILE=""
case "$UNAME_R" in
     5.8)        export PCA_PATCHADD=/usr/local/sbin/patchadd
                 export PCA_WGET=/usr/local/bin/wget
                 ;;
esac

if [ -r "/usr/local/lib/pca/pca-$UNAME_R.conf" ]; then
     CFFILE="--cffile=/usr/local/lib/pca/pca-$UNAME_R.conf"
fi

exec /usr/local/lib/pca/pca $CFFILE "$@"

We use a hacked version of patchadd that avoids the fgrep
"too many patterns" error by using /usr/xpg4/bin/fgrep.
Then you just put whatever O/S-specific defaults you want
in, for instance, usr/local/slib/pca/pca-5.10.conf.

David Stark wrote:
>> 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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