[pca] Use of explorer outputs

[Glenn Satchell]

>Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:18:03 +1000
>From: Roland Soderstrom <rolands at logicaltech.com.au>
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>Subject: [pca] Use of explorer outputs
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>We have a setup that weekly distributes the ordinary Sun explorer dumps 
>to the "pca server".
>Is it possible to use the explorer dump files to get pkginfo, showrev 
>and uname for pca for all the hosts?
>Everything is there but under different filenames and path.
>pkginfo -x is not there but pkginfo -l is.
>
>It is only our pca server that has internetaccess.

Hi Roland

This is described in the man page, I'm using version 20080519-01.

     -f, --fromfiles=DIR
          Read uname/showrev/pkginfo output from files in the
          specified directory, where DIR can also be a file name
          prefix. See CREATING PATCH REPORTS FOR REMOTE MACHINES
          for details.
...
CREATING PATCH REPORTS FOR REMOTE MACHINES
...
     If Sun Explorer is used to collect information about Sun
     systems, a directory containing Sun Explorer output can be
     used as the argument to -f as well.

regards,
-glenn