[pca] Patch blacklist?

[Fredrich Maney]

You can also add something like the following to your pca.conf:

ignore=120410

fpsm
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Fredrich Maney
A*R*C
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at 
> [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of David Stark
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:43 AM
> To: pca at lists.univie.ac.at
> Subject: Re: [pca] Patch blacklist?
> 
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
>