[pca] Total download size

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Fri Nov 21 13:55:56 CET 2008


David Stark wrote:
> Since Sun have decided that rolling enormous patches is absolutely
> the thing to do, I've had to find a way of figuring out the download
> size for our patch runs.

Thanks. You know, it's not that I wouldn't have proposed to Sun to add a 
size column to patchdiag.xref before (for them it would be easy to do), 
which would make this task so much easier ..

With multiple servers, you might want to think about setting up a local 
patch server, pre-download all the missing patches for the affected 
server(s), and use something like this:

   ls -1s `pca --format '%p-%c.zip' --noheader`

in the patch store to get the sizes of all missing patches. Other than 
your script, it only works with all patches being available locally, of 
course.

Martin.





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