[pca] problems with 137137 kernel patch
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Tue Feb 24 09:37:44 CET 2009
Hi Gerard,
> # /etc/scripts/pca -i 137137-09
> ...
> calypso-root% /etc/scripts/pca -l 140774
There is a small but important difference between these two commands.
One time you are specifying a patch ID plus revision, the other time
just a patch ID.
In the first case, pca will not look at dependencies of the patch but
list/download/install exactly this patch. Sometimes one needs that,
especially when downloading older revisions of a patch or explicitely
one patch for a different OS release.
In the second case, pca will look for the most recent revision of the
patch and all the patches it requires.
When I decided on that behaviour a long time ago, I chose not to use an
extra option. It's not needed, and it would give the wrong impression
that pca could resolve dependencies for past revisions of patches as
well - this is not possible, as the information is missing from the xref
file.
Martin.
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