[pca] force install a older revision

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>  How do I tell pca to install a older revision?
>>
>
> Glenn already answered that.
>
>
>  I cannot get some of the latest solaris 8 patches even with our
>>
> > contract due to `Not Entitled' flag.
>
> You would need to buy Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service for patches newer
> than April 1st, 2009:
>
>  http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/Solaris8.html
>
> If you still patch old Solaris 8 systems, it might be a good idea to get
> hold of a copy of the patchdiag.xref file from March 31st, 2009, and use
> that with pca's "--xrefdir" and "--nocheckxref" options. Like that, you'll
> get the most recent patch state with free patches only.
>
>
I am not sure how I can get the older patchdiag.xref . I rather do that then
buying the vintage patch service. After all I am
working to upgrade them all to sol 10

Thanks

 Martin.
>
>


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