[pca] Missing patch files

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Edward,

Edward J. Corbett 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
> 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
> 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.
See http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-61-208057-1 
for details of how to free up space in /var.

HTH,
-Don