[pca] Patch blacklist?

[David Stark]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:04:36PM +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Martin.

>> 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.
>
> Yes. I'm not too happy about that behaviour of the ignore option either. 
> Back when I implemented it, I decided that it would be too confusing if you 
> ignore a patch in a config file, forget about it, and later many patches 
> fail to install as they depend on the ignored patch. Nowadays I'd say that 
> if you ignore a patch it should always be ignored. I'm hesitating to change 
> the behaviour now, though. I will probably re-think the complete 
> ignore/pattern option design at some time.

Maybe something like a '--never=' option to avoid breaking the existing syntax?

>> 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.
>
> An option would be to ignore both 120410 *and* the patches which require it 
> - they won't install anyway, so ignoring them is a good idea. The quickest 
> way to find out which patches depend on 120410 would be:
>
>   $ pca --debug --list total | grep '120410... required by'
>   120410-01 required by 120412: already listed
>   120410-01 required by 120414: already listed
>   120410-01 required by 121675: already listed
>   120410-01 required by 125287: already listed
>   120410-01 required by 121677: already listed
>
> Hope that helps,

Cool cool. I'll play about with this and the --pattern options and see what's most conducive to Good Times.

Cheers.

> Martin.
>

Dave