[pca] pca and -R

[Ateeq Altaf]

I tend to always run the following before lucreate/lumake when patching using LU and PCA:

pca \
--pattern='[Ll]ive [Uu]pgrade|[Ii]nstall and [Pp]atch [Uu]tilities' \
--install missing

I also have --noreboot and --safe in the config file to avoid any unexpected surprised from the above against a live boot environment.

Ateeq

-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: 26 March 2010 10:41
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] pca and -R

French, David wrote:
> Anyway, I started patching the current BE with this patch before running
> the pca -R version for the alternate BE.    I wanted others to know in
> case they were also doing pca patching of alternate BE's under LU, or
> using -R in general.

Good advice - thanks!

> Martin, I was also wondering if you could add information to the
> documentation and/or a warning when -R is used to this affect.

I've added a paragraph to the LIVE UPGRADE section of the documentation:

   pca always installs the patch for the patch installation utilities
   first to avoid possible bugs in patchadd. When patching an inactive
   BE, this patch should be installed manually to the active BE, as its
   patch installation utilities are used even when root=DIR is set.

I hope that's clear enough ..

Martin.


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