[pca] Sun patchdiag.xref not updating

[Martin Paul]

Ed wrote:
> I think I found the problem. When I run PCA it tries to get the
> patchdiag.xref file from
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref

Right. This is the only official download link for the xref file. It's 
what you are directed at when going to sunsolve.sun.com, "Patches and 
Updates", "The patchdiag.xref file".

> It should be trying to grab the file from
> https://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref instead which shows the current
> (Feb/26/08) listing of the file. Not sure what's going on with the automatic
> download but I guess I'll download it manually for now.

This is an unofficial link, and it's not guaranteed to work either, so I 
won't switch to that link in pca (another issue is that I can't use an 
https link, as the wget which comes with older versions of Solaris 
doesn't support https links).

If the https link works out better for you, you can of course use that 
and feed the xref file to pca. I guess we can only wait for sunsolve to 
become stable again.

The good thing is that pca will not overwrite a more recent local copy 
of the xref file with an older version. So on multiple runs of pca you 
always should end up with the most current xref file, even if sunsolve 
is flakey.

Martin.