[pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

[Bliss, Kevin L]

You can either make a local copy of the patchdiag.xref on all of the servers on the same day.  Or can run pca -d (whatever other flags you use) to download instead of install on the same day on all of the servers.  Then do the install when you want, using the download directory as your repository instead of your proxy.  The drawback to the second method is that you are using a fair amount of space until you to patch.


Kevin Bliss
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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:46 PM
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Subject: [pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

We have different classes of machines, dev, test, staging, and production, upon which we install patches in a progressive cycle.  We use the same pca.conf file for all systems.  I'd like to be able to freeze the date, not minage, of patches that we install so that all levels get the same patches regardless of the day on which they were installed.

Telling the machine not to update the patchdiag.xref file with --nocheckxref seems suboptimal.  There's no easy way to ensure that they're all looking at the one from the same date while still keeping the copy on the proxy server current (in case we quickly need to apply a security patch, for example).

Is there already a way to do this that I've missed?