[pca] Problem with too new patches?

[Martin Paul]

Alexander,

> --16:22:21--  http://winds06.win.ch.da.rtr/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi?119252-28
>            => `/data/patches/winds06/119252-28.tmp'
> Resolving winds06.win.ch.da.rtr... 10.0.1.26, 10.0.1.26
> Connecting to winds06.win.ch.da.rtr|10.0.1.26|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 119252-28 not found
> 16:22:42 ERROR 500: 119252-28 not found.

You're downloading through a pca proxy. Therefore the error code (500) 
is not what's returned from SunSolve, but from the the proxy. It only 
tells us that the proxy failed to download the patch from SunSolve, but 
not why. You would have to either enable debug mode on the proxy, using 
"debug=1" in the pca-proxy.conf file, or try the download without 
patchurl pointing at the proxy.

Here's a list of the possible SunSolve error codes I've seen so far and 
what they mean:

404 Not Found:

You're trying to download a patch/revision which doesn't exist on SunSolve.

401 Unauthorized:

The username/password you provided to SunSolve is not correct.

403 Forbidden:

The username/password is correct, but it's not connected to a support 
contract and you're trying to download a restricted patch. This can 
point at an internal SunSolve error, where it doesn't check your 
authentication correctly.

500 Internal Server Error:

You've hit a broken download server in SunSolve's pool. Re-try later, 
either Sun will fix the broken server or you will be directed at a 
different server.

I've thought about parsing the error codes in pca to return a verbose 
message, but I would have to rely both on wget's debug output format and 
on SunSolve to provide the same error codes persistently. I don't think 
that's a safe assumption.

> I suppose PCA (or rather, Sunsolve) fails, because the patch is too
> new?

Hm, I've downloaded the patch successfully at "Wed Mar 11 08:54:34 2009 
MET" - earlier than you? I usually download all new patches every day at 
that time, and it's been a looong time since I've seen a patch failing 
to download for the reason that it didn't exist.

I don't say that it's not possible that this happened, but as far as I 
can say, it wouldn't be normal that the xref file is being published 
before the new patches are available on SunSolve.

Martin.