[pca] New release: 20091012-01
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Thu Dec 10 12:22:47 CET 2009
A new release of PCA has just been published. Here's a list of
new features and changes:
* Make behaviour of the askauth option the default and deprecate it
* Never ask for SOA data if user option is set to dontask
* Use temporary wgetrc instead of command line option to hide SOA data
* Identify patch utility patches dynamically to replace hardcoded list
* Ask for SOA data in proxy mode, when needed
* Send SOA data to local caching proxy via custom HTTP header
* Set user and passwd from custom X_PCA_ HTTP headers in proxy mode
* Return HTTP error 401 instead of 500 when proxy needs SOA data
* Return HTTP error 404 instead of 500 when proxy can't find a file
* Be more verbose when trying downloads from SunSolve
* Show more detailed error message on download failures
* Safe creation of temporary files/dirs to avoid race condition
* Show output from patchadd synchronously in debug mode
* Catch wget startup error
* Documentation: Add list of possible causes for download failures
* Documentation: Add information about Live Upgrade
* Whitelist: add 128402, 137048, 141525
* Whitelist: remove obsolete patches
* Update list of contributors
Update:
pca --update now
Download:
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/installation.html
MD5: 78cc7aa4238a782b5b63b0da93a2c60c
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