[pca] Sun patchdiag.xref not updating

[Martin Paul]

Ed wrote:
> As you may have noticed the patchdiag.xref file from Sun hasn't been updated
> since Feb/07/08.

I have seen sunsolve delivering an old file now and then in the past 
days, but still could get the current file at least on the second try. 
Right now, I get the correct file (Feb/27/08) with pca.

If you look at http://sunsolve.sun.com/, you'll see a notice that they 
are announcing changes to SunSolve - in the past this always resulted in 
temporary problems with downloading the xref file and patches in pca as 
well.

 > I'm currently in a Solaris 10 training class and mentioned
> this to the instructor. According to what I was told Sun has decided to stop
> updating this file as their patching solutions no require it. I'm not sure
> this is true or not but I wanted to share this information.

There has been no official announcement, and from what I've heard from 
other sources this may not be true.

 > If this is correct then I suspect this may have serious implication for
 > the PCA users out there.

If Sun doesn't update patchdiag.xref anymore, pca will be dead, plain 
simple.

If you haven't done so yet, go to

   http://blogs.sun.com/patch/entry/patch_automation_tools#comments

and leave a comment stating that you don't want pca to die. I've had 
private conversation with Gerry Haskins, and he promised to do what he 
can so that Sun won't break pca.

Martin.