[pca] Interesting thing about Xref

[Rajiv Gunja]

Don,
It just perked my interest when 2 files without content differences occurred
on 4th/5th and 6th/9th. Yes I did see a few patches on other days.
Thanks

-GGR

--
Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


2009/11/12 Don O'Malley <Don.Omalley at sun.com>

>
>
> Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>
> *$ -->* diff patchdiag.xref.Nov.04.09 patchdiag.xref.Nov.05.09
> 1c1
> < ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Nov/04/09 ##
> ---
> > ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Nov/05/09 ##
>
> Not sure about this one...
>
>
>
> *$ -->* diff patchdiag.xref.Nov.06.09 patchdiag.xref.Nov.09.09
> 1c1
> < ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Nov/06/09 ##
> ---
> > ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Nov/09/09 ##
>
> I know that the Engineer responsible for releasing patches was ill on
> Monday and that as a result no patches were released between 6th November &
> 10th November (taking the w/e into account).
> This is primarily due to recent layoffs in Sun and the need to find a new
> backup person to take on Patch Release.
>
> The patchdiag.xref is generated by a cron job (or at least when it works it
> is) at the end of the day Us Pacific Time.
>
> No patches released means no updates to patchdiag (apart from the date),
> which is what you are seeing.
>
> If you do a diff between the patchdiag from the 9th and yesterday's/today's
> one you should see some changes as the backlog is cleared.
>
> Best,
> -Don
>
>
> -GGR
>
> --
> Rajiv G Gunja
> Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com
>
>
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