[pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

[Martin Paul]

Jonathan,

> Not being an experienced user of pca it did not immediately occur to me 
> that pca would also patch Netbackup, can anyone suggest the best method 
> of excluding patches for a particular application?

If you don't want to use the ignore option, you can alternatively use 
the pattern option. Specify a negative pattern by starting it with '!'. 
Example:

   pca --pattern '![nN]et[bB]ackup'

will not list any NetBackup patches. Attention - when using [t]csh you 
must use '\!' instead of '!'). You can put:

   pattern=![nN]et[bB]ackup

in a pca.conf file, too.

> Is it possible to remove any reference to Netbackup from the 
> patchdiag.xref file?

Although I don't usually recommend messing around with the xref file, it 
should be fine in this case.

> I know its possible to use the -–ignore switch, but this will involve 
> identifying the patches and increasing the complexity of the command line.

The patch numbers for NetBackup will be pretty much constant, so it's 
just to be done once. Put the ignore statements into a pca.conf file, so 
you don't have to specify them on each run of pca.

Martin.