[pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

Thu Aug 14 15:42:33 CEST 2008

looks like u need to do !VRTS to be able to exclude volume manager. 
!VERITAS wont do it.

Jonathan Imber <Jonathan.Imber at gartmore.com> 
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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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