[pca] Problems at sunsolve?

[Martin Paul]

Thomas Bleek wrote:
> I'm getting much "patch not found" errors on sunsolve (with pca and also 
> with the web-interface of sunsolve too). I'm quite unsure if I have 
> problems with the access-rights of my sunsolve-account. some hours ago 
> it has worked, 

Worked for me as well a few hours ago. Later, I couldn't access 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/, and patch downloads with pca right now fail 
with (run with --debug):

   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error

So the SunSolve is braindead once again; if you haven't seen that before 
- this is not unusual. Try again later.

> (It would be nice to be able to tell pca only to download the sparc 
> patches for sol9 and sol10 for instance.)

There isn't *one* "Solaris 9 patchset"; it really depends on the age of 
the OS installation (Solaris update releases), patching history, and 
which cluster (or amount of packages) is installed.

Therefore, for that purpose, I really recommend to either run pca on a 
Solaris 9 or 10 machine or to collect uname/showrev/pkginfo output from 
each type of machine and use that as input for the pca download job on 
the server. See "CREATING PATCH REPORTS FOR REMOTE MACHINES". You can 
simulate a completely unpatched machine by providing an empty 
showrev.out file.

> One other question: It is not really a patch issue but I think, the 
> member of this list will know this.

Not me, I don't do upgrades :)

Martin.