[pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Martin,

Am 28.08.2008 um 11:37 schrieb Martin Paul:
> amy.rich at tufts.edu wrote:
>> If you're always using an out of date patchdiag.xref file, how can  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.
>
> You really will have to deal with different copies of  
> patchdiag.xref, then. As Sun removes information about old patch  
> revisions from the xref file when a new revision is published,  
> there's no way to correctly calculate a state X days ago.

I think providing archived patchdiag.xref versions from your site would
be a valuable service for the PCA users (you have them anyway, right?)
With these versions accessible online you could add a feature to PCA
that fetches the correct patchdiag.xref and compare against that one
without the burden that every admin has to do that himself.

What do you think?

Thanks!

   -- Dago