[pca] pca can't download patches if installed on os2008.11

[Martin Paul]

Gerard,

> i've set a proxy server on my network, and it is a os2008.11 machine. 

Is this a pca proxy, or a standard web proxy?

> And somatimes, i need to download individual patches. If i do it on the 
> client machine, the patch isn't downloaded on the proxy server.

Hm, when a client is configured to download patches through a pca proxy, 
it shouldn't matter whether you are downloading e.g. all "missing" or a 
single patch. All patch downloads should be done by the proxy.

> So i tried:
> root at ultra20:/export/home2/patches# /etc/scripts/pca -d 137137-09
> 
> ERROR: Couldn't get list of installed patches

Is this on the os2008.11 machine? Can you show me output of "showrev -p" 
and "patchadd -p"? pca uses either, and one of them has worked on any 
machine I've seen until now.

> How can i deactivate the need to list installed patches and force the 
> download only?

You can't, and a change to pca wouldn't be as simple as it might seem. 
E.g. pca prints an information line about any patch before it starts the 
download, and this line contains the currently installed revision of the 
requested patch. Without the list of installed patches, this information 
isn't available. Not showing it anymore would change the default output, 
which somebody might rely on, so I'm not to keen on changing that.

Martin.