[pca] Use of explorer outputs

[Roland Soderstrom]

Brilliant,

I've just started looking at PCA and it looks so good.
I missed that part of the documentation about the explorer dumps.
I just tested and it works just fine.

Thanks,
Roland Soderstrom


Glenn Satchell wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:18:03 +1000
>> From: Roland Soderstrom <rolands at logicaltech.com.au>
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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.
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> 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
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