[pca] Use of explorer outputs

[Glenn Satchell]

Hi Roland

PCA is just an awesome piece of software. It makes patching Solaris
boxes so easy.

In your case where the general servers do not have internet acess you
can set up a PCA proxy on your pca-server. This way you only download
each patch once, and it works very well.

There is a lot of information in the man pages and on the pca web site.

And keep posting questions, of course.

regards,
-glenn

>Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:06:25 +1000
>From: Roland Soderstrom <rolands at logicaltech.com.au>
>
>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:
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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
>>
>>
>>   
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