[pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

[Jonathan Imber]

All,

I have been playing with the pca.conf file today and it's now working a treat.

Nothing we can do about the kernel patch, but defiantly one to be aware of.

We will be looking to use the missingrs option and then only install other patches if really necessary.

Thanks to everyone for you advice, its all been very useful.

Regards,
Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Fredrich Maney
Sent: 14 August 2008 15:40
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

This isn't PCA's fault. It has to do with Sun providing patches
for third party products in the same channel as patches for Sun
products.

You can edit the patchdiag.xref file, but it is royal pain (it
won't open in vi due to the line length restrictions) and you
would have to remember to do every time.

The easiest (sanest) way to handle this is with a pca.conf file
similiar to the following:


xrefdir=/patchrep
patchdir=/patchrep
pattern=!VERITAS|NetBackup|JavaSE|JDK|JDS|StarOffice


fpsm
--
Fredrich Maney
A*R*C


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at
> [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Jonathan Imber
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 6:05 AM
> To: 'pca at lists.univie.ac.at'
> Subject: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade
>
> Having used pca to patch both a Solaris 8 and Solaris 10
> Netbackup master and media servers the application refused to work.
>
>
>
> Considerable time was spent looking at Kernel, mpt patches
> etc. before the problem was diagnosed as a Netbackup version
> mismatch i.e. the media server being newer than the master
> server as a result of pca applying a Netbackup upgrade patch.
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Is it possible to remove any reference to Netbackup from the
> patchdiag.xref file?
>
>
>
> I know its possible to use the --ignore switch, but this will
> involve identifying the patches and increasing the complexity
> of the command line.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
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