[pca] Wrong patches downloaded

[Ron Halstead]

Thank you Mike. I'll use your reply as the root cause. Yes, it has to be 
perfect. My company is in the nuclear industry for the Department of 
Energy. Nuclear culture does not allow mistakes as they can cause things 
to "glow in the dark". Thus, the culture covers everything, including 
patching.

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Ron Halstead
Senior UNIX Systems Analyst
rdhalstead at gmail.com
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Myers, Mike wrote:
> You have to prove it's...perfect?  Wow...
>
> PCA uses the patchdiag.xref file which has 10 fields (see http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-240587-1 for the official documentation of it).
>
> Field 8 is "OS Version".  For this specific patch it's listed as "unbundled" which means this is a patch for a product that's not tied to an OS release.  But of course that's contradicted by the description...
>
> 110936|22|Apr/07/05| |S| |  |Unbundled|sparc;|...|Sun Management Center 3.0: (GA) Patch for Solaris 2.6
>
> So you can see Sun doesn't even aim for "perfect"
>
> Cheers, 
>  - Mike.Myers <at> nwdc.net 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Ron Halstead
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:45 PM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: [pca] Wrong patches downloaded
>
> 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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