[pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

[Peter Pickford]

I keep my patches and xrefs on an nfs share the xrefs are in a dated
directory

the I use a specific dated xref for test then prod

you can select which date you are comparing to as well.

seems very flexible

the minage is of no use to me

2008/8/27 <amy.rich at tufts.edu>

>
> cf2688> I keep the proxy server's copy frozen by including nocheckxref in
> its
> cf2688> config, and update manually for regular releases or as necessary.
>
> If you're always using an out of date patchdiag.xref file, how can you tell
> what patches you're behind on on every client machine?  I think the main
> issue
> I'm having is that I want to compare to BOTH the latest and a specified
> baseline on every client.
>
> I want to be able to run pca -l on every client machine to generate a list
> of
> patches that compares against the current patchdiag.xref.  This gives me a
> good idea of how far each machine is behind and what they require (which
> then
> automatically gets shoved into a database so we can easily see what
> machines
> are lacking what).  But when it comes to installing patches, I want to be
> able
> to specify a command line flag that says "only install patches older than
> this
> date."  I'd also like to be able to run pca -l with a command line flag for
> the date to see what patches WILL be installed with that flag.
>
> My approach would allow:
>
> * information about how machines compare to the latest released patches
> * baseline install consistency during a patch cycle
> * information about how machines compare to said baseline during a patch
> cycle
> * the flexibility of installing a specific patch on a given machine when
> the
>  need arises
>
> I don't see a way to accomplish those goals by using different frozen
> versions
> of the patchdiag.xref file.
>
> Since the patchdiag.xref file already lists patches by release date (not
> age),
> I was hoping this might already be part of pca's functionality (or maybe
> easily added if it's not).
>
>
>
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