[pca] Download patches for install at a later time?

Tue Aug 18 21:38:19 CEST 2009

1.) Yes. Easiest way is to use installing using -i as well as the -P switch
(--patchdir) and provide the path to the directory where the patch .zip
files are that you downloaded earlier.

2.) Not sure what you mean by 'local files associated by the EMC array'. Can
you elaborate?

3.) Your pca command line is providing a specific list of patches as an
argument, some of which are either obsolete, or have dependencies that are
obsolete. Why not just do get a more updated accurate list of patches to
install by using 'pca -l missing'

...or if there are too many patches here, limit yourself to the recommended
and/or security patches with 'pca -l  missingrs'

Fred

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Techie <techchavez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a window of downtime upcoming for server patching.
> I would like to use pca to download the patches I need in advance to
> cut down the time it actually takes to apply the patches.
> I have many patches that I specifically need that pca shows dependencies
> for.
> For example I ran the pca -l command at the bottom of this email and I
> have some questions.
>
> 1) I see that I can use pca -d to download the patches. However how
> can I install these patches at a later date?
> More specifically what is the procedure I can use to install these
> patches once I download them all in one command. Do I put them in a
> single zip file
> or specify the directory to the pca -i command? I know pca -i will
> download and install them for me at that time but as I said, I want to
> download them ahead of time and install them later.
>
> 2) I have local files associated with my EMC array, should I use the
> -s or safe option when running the install command for these patches?
>
> 3) For the patches it shows as obsoleted, should I explicitly exclude
> theses patches? Or will PCA ignore these when it installs them?
>
> Thank you in advance, pca is great by the way!!
>
> pca -l 127127 137137 120011 127884 120900 121133 119254 119317 120235
> 121428 121002 123121 121004 119574 12099
> 6 120068 119042 126538 123332 119246 121901 125418 121430 123839
> 127922 137321 138130
> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Aug/17/09
> Host: SUNBOX (SunOS 5.10/Generic_118833-36/sparc/sun4u)
> List: 127127 137137 120011 127884 120900 121133 119254 119317 120235
> 121428 121002 123121 121004 119574 120996
>  120068 119042 126538 123332 119246 121901 125418 121430 123839 127922
> 137321 138130 (44/26391)
>
> Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
> ------ -- - -- --- ---
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 119254 24 < 67 RS-  14 SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
> 119042 09 < 11 --- 440 Obsoleted by: 138217-01 SunOS 5.10: svccfg &
> svcprop patch
> 119246 15 < 35 --- 147 SunOS 5.10: Manual Page updates for Solaris 10
> 119317 01 = 01 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: SVr4 Packaging Commands (usr) Patch
> 119574 02 = 02 --- 999 Obsoleted by: 140860-01 SunOS 5.10: su patch
> 118918 17 < 24 RS- 925 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Crypto Framework patch
> 138217 -- < 01 R-- 274 SunOS 5.10: svccfg & svcprop patch
> 140860 -- < 01 R--  99 SunOS 5.10: su patch
> 119578 24 < 30 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: FMA Patch
> 140899 -- < 01 R-- 104 SunOS 5.10: [ir].manifest patch
> 120272 05 < 24 RS-  64 SunOS 5.10: SMA patch
> 126897 -- < 02 R-- 708 SunOS 5.10: Fault Manager Patch
> 127755 -- < 01 R-- 481 SunOS 5.10: Fault Manager patch
> 125503 -- < 02 R-- 708 SunOS 5.10: package-move-of-IP-objects patch
> 124204 -- < 04 --- 909 Obsoleted by: 120473-05 SunOS 5.10: zfs patch
> 122660 02 < 10 --- 749 Obsoleted by: 120011-14 SunOS 5.10: zones patch
> 125547 -- < 02 R-- 708 SunOS 5.10: zoneadm indirect dependency patch
> 140796 -- < 01 R-- 104 SunOS 5.10: umountall patch
> 120011 -- < 14 RS- 706 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
> 120068 01 < 03 -S- 909 Obsoleted by: 125418-01 SunOS 5.10: in.telnetd patch
> 120235 01 = 01 --- 999 SunOS 5.10: Live Upgrade Zones Support Patch
> 120900 04 = 04 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: libzonecfg Patch
> 120996 -- < 02 --- 999 Obsoleted by: 122652-01 SunOS 5.10: cpio Patch
> 121002 02 < 04 --- 609 Obsoleted by: 128330-01 SunOS 5.10: pax patch
> 121004 01 < 04 -S- 452 Obsoleted by: 138253-01 SunOS 5.10: sh patch
> 121133 02 = 02 R-- 999 SunOS 5.10: zones library and zones utility patch
> 121430 10 < 37 ---  47 SunOS 5.8 5.9 5.10: Live Upgrade Patch
> 121428 03 < 12 --- 222 SunOS 5.10: Live Upgrade Zones Support Patch
> 121901 01 < 02 --- 844 Obsoleted by: 126538-01 SunOS 5.10: i.manifest
> r.manifest class ac
> 123121 02 = 02 --- 999 SunOS 5.10: libwsreg.so.1 Patch
> 123332 -- < 02 --- 152 Obsoleted by: 140169-01 SunOS 5.10: tftp and
> in.tftpd patch
> 123839 -- < 07 --- 889 Obsoleted by: 126897-02 SunOS 5.10: Fault Manager
> Patch
> 125418 -- < 01 -S- 711 Obsoleted by: 127127-11 SunOS 5.10: in.telnetd patch
> 126538 -- < 02 --- 246 Obsoleted by: 140899-01 SunOS 5.10: i.manifest
> and r.manifest patc
> 125891 -- < 01 R-- 482 SunOS 5.10: libc_psr_hwcap.so.1 patch
> 126540 -- < 02 R-- 713 SunOS 5.10: libumem library patch
> 127127 -- < 11 RS- 480 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
> 127884 -- < 01 R-- 487 SunOS 5.10: awk patch
> 127922 -- < 04 --- 446 Obsoleted by: 138275-01 SunOS 5.10: cpio Patch
> 125555 -- < 05 R--  42 SunOS 5.10: patch behavior patch
> 138866 -- < 03 R--  95 SunOS 5.10: sharetab patch
> 137137 -- < 09 RS- 281 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
> 137321 -- < 01 R-- 529 SunOS 5.10: p7zip patch
> 138130 -- < 01 --- 259 Obsoleted by: 139973-01 SunOS 5.10: vold patch
>
>

-- 
Fred Chagnon
fchagnon at gmail.com
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