[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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