[pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Yup, I got screwed by the Sun Veritas patch one time, overlaying my 
Symantec version of Netbackup.  Luckily, the patch backed out and 
everything was ok.

Jeff Earickson

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jonathan Imber wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:56:14 +0100
> From: Jonathan Imber <Jonathan.Imber at gartmore.com>
> Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
> To: "'PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion'" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
> Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade
> 
> Jeff,
>
> Great tip, I will probably add sendmail also.
>
> !VERITAS will presumably exclude volume manager also.  I hope they don't decide to rebadge the product as Symantec.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
> Sent: 14 August 2008 11:52
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade
>
> Jonathan,
>
> I put the following line in my .pca file to avoid Veritas Netbackup
> and sendmail (I roll my own version of both):
>
> pattern=!VERITAS|sendmail
>
> The NOT VERITAS keeps the Sun version of Netbackup away.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jonathan Imber wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:35:50 +0100
>> From: Jonathan Imber <Jonathan.Imber at gartmore.com>
>> Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
>> To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
>> Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade
>>
>> Thanks Martin,
>>
>> I will add this to the pca.conf file a give it a go.
>>
>> Is there any way I can force pca to only apply the recommended and security patches?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
>> Sent: 14 August 2008 11:26
>> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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