[pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

[Rajiv Gunja]

At our organisation too we have the same issue. So to solve this without
much fuss, I have a patchdiag.xref from a specific date on my main PCA Proxy
server.
So for example, if I am freezing my patches to May 01 2008, I will have a
file on the PCA Proxy server patchdiag.xref.May.01.2008

Then I use a wrapper which:
1. Gets the patchdiag.xref.May.01.2008 to my target server, rename it to
patchdiag.xref
2. runs pca command pca -y --xrefdir=/var/tmp -l missing

This basically ties the date down to May 01 2008 which is not the same as
--mindate.

Hope this helps.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


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

> 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?
>
>
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