[pca] feature request

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Wed Nov 11 12:07:06 CET 2009


Asif Iqbal wrote:
> would be nice if I could ask pca to download the recommended cluster.  lazy
> me :-)

I'm lazy, too :) and I don't have an idea about how to add this easily 
to pca without breaking the consistency of the command line interface 
(accepting e.g. "10_Recommended" as a standard argument might make 
people believe that they can e.g. use "--list 10_Recommended" to show 
patches included in a cluster).

Better use your own script, which uses e.g.:

/usr/sfw/bin/wget --no-check-certificate --http-user=xxx 
--http-passwd=yyy 'http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=$1' -O $1

Add "auth-no-challenge" if wget >= 1.11, that's it.

Or try to talk Don into providing a more general and Sun-maintained 
version of the "getsolpatch.sh" sample script on:

   http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-240066-1

It would be great to have an official demo script which can download any 
file (patch, README, cluster) from SunSolve, taking care of all the wget 
specialties described in TI #240066.

Martin.



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