[pca] pca Digest, Vol 19, Issue 20

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Techie,

Am 18.08.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Techie:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Allen Eastwood<mixal at paconet.us>  
> wrote:
>> pca -d will download the patches to your patchdir as .zip files,  
>> just like
>> if you had d/l's them from Sun manually.
>>
>> You can use any valid patch method to install the patches, I use  
>> pca -i, I
>> have a customer who uses pca to list and d/l the patches, but he  
>> likes to
>> install them manually.
>
> So there is no way to install all the patches in one bang after I
> download em? Sort of like a patch bundle? Or do I have to use pca -i
> and download and install em if i want to apply multiple patches at
> once?

Download them first with -d and then install with -i. If the patches
are already there PCA will use that and won't download it again. Just
make sure you don't update the xref-file on installation.

>> I think, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, that pca will  
>> download even
>> obsolete patches if you tell it to.

Yes. If you take a patchlist from Sun you should manually replace the
obsoleted ones with the most recent ones referenced.


Best regards

   -- Dago