[pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

[Jeff A. Earickson]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Greg Matthews wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:45:01 +0100
> From: Greg Matthews <gmatt at nerc.ac.uk>
> 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 A. Earickson wrote:
>> 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
>
> I assume that this wont stop the kernel patches clobbering sendmail tho.
>
Uhhh, kernel patches don't touch sendmail -- sendmail patches do.  The above
can be read as !(VERITAS|sendmail), so yes it does keep Sun sendmail patches
away.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College