[pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage

[Fredrich Maney]

Simple, elegant solution: keep two copies of patchdiag.xref, one
in your central repository that is your "golden image" across all
of your environments for a specific date, and one that is current
(and updated whenever) and local. You just need to specify which
one you want when you run PCA.

fpsm
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Fredrich Maney
A*R*C
 

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> Subject: [pca] specifying a specific date instead of minage
> 
> We have different classes of machines, dev, test, staging, 
> and production,
> upon which we install patches in a progressive cycle.  We use the same
> pca.conf file for all systems.  I'd like to be able to freeze 
> the date, not
> minage, of patches that we install so that all levels get the 
> same patches
> regardless of the day on which they were installed.
> 
> Telling the machine not to update the patchdiag.xref file 
> with --nocheckxref
> seems suboptimal.  There's no easy way to ensure that they're 
> all looking at
> the one from the same date while still keeping the copy on 
> the proxy server
> current (in case we quickly need to apply a security patch, 
> for example).
> 
> Is there already a way to do this that I've missed?
> 
>