[pca] multiple patterns

[Fredrich Maney]

What about instead of using a separate --pattern flag that you make
it so that --ignore, --rec and --sec accept patterns or add flags
for ignorepattern and requirepattern?

For example, putting something like following in pca.conf:

nocheckxref
xrefdir=/patchrep
patchdir=/patchrep
minage=30
ignorepattern=VRTS|VERITAS|NetBackup|JavaSE|JD[KS]|StarOffice|mysql|GNOM
E|X11|CDE
requirepattern=SAN

fpsm
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Fredrich Maney
A*R*C
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at 
> [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 3:50 AM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] multiple patterns
> 
> Floyd, Chuck wrote:
> > Is there a way for me to put in multiple pattern matches?  
> For example,
> > I want to match Veritas patches with 
> "VRTS|VERITAS|Veritas|SYMC" but not
> > NetBackup.
> 
> Unfortunately not. You can only combine your pattern with "ignore" 
> statements for all the NetBackup patch IDs that match.
> 
> Some time ago I had put support for multiple pattern options 
> into pca. 
> It turned out to be not that easy - the question was whether multiple 
> patterns should be logically ANDed or ORed. Both of them make 
> sense in 
> different situations:
> 
> - you need OR to specify e.g. patches which match "VRTS" or "Veritas"
> - you need AND to specify patches which also match NOT "NetBackup".
> 
> So I would have to add a complete pattern parser supporting 
> AND/OR/NOT 
> plus parantheses for grouping. That's too complicated IMO.
> 
> Martin.
> 
>