[pca] Wrong patches downloaded

Ron Halstead rdhalstead at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 22:45:27 CET 2008


Using the following pca options, I ran my pca wrapper script on a 
Solaris 8 machine.
The following patches were downloaded from my patch proxy server.

pca --nocheckxref \
    --patchdir=${TMPDIR} \
    --xrefdir=/patches/pca/htdocs/${ROLE} \
    --patchurl=http://${SERVER}/dev/pca-proxy.cgi \
    --xrefurl=http://${SERVER}/dev/pca-proxy.cgi \
    --fromfiles=/tmp/${HOSTNAME}_ \
    --install $PATCHGRP | tee 
/patches/pca/logs/${HOSTNAME}.patchlog.`date +%y%m%d` 2>&1

110936 -- < 22 -S- 999 Sun Management Center 3.0: (GA) Patch for Solaris 2.6
110937 -- < 22 -S- 999 Sun Management Center 3.0: (GA) Patch for Solaris 7
110971 -- < 22 -S- 999 Sun Management Center 3.0: (RR) Patch for Solaris 2.6
110972 -- < 22 -S- 999 Sun Management Center 3.0: (RR) Patch for Solaris 7

As you can see, they are for Solaris 2.6 and 7. not Solaris 8. How did 
this happen? In order to use my
pca wrapper scripts in production, I must prove to management that pca 
is "perfect". I believe I can
convince my boss that this is so, but I would like to know the cause.

By the way, the rest of the patches were correctly installed and I did 
not have this problem on a
Solaris 10 machine.

Ron



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