[pca] Missing patch files

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Edward J. Corbett <edc at cs.unr.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>        I am having problems with most patches failing due to:
> "Failed (patch not found)".  I have seen the News post from 10/23
>

Try to see if you download it manually from sunsolve w/ your account.

If you cannot, pca can't do anything.


> indicating that Sun is aware of this and "working on it".
> But it is unclear to me if the "[pca] New release: 20091030-01", is
> supposed to be the fix to this.
>
>        I am also starting to have issues with patches failing because
> /var/sadm/pkg is getting full.  My first inclination would be to delete
>

you can safely delete obsolete compressed files.

it has been discussed in pca mailing list in the past. check out this thread

 http://www.mail-archive.com/pca@lists.univie.ac.at/msg00744.html


the old patch directories which now amount to about 2GB; but of course
> things like that are never a good idea, without knowledge.  If I can't
> delete them, what is the alternative?  Since there is really no other place
> to move them.
>
>


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