[pca] Jar format bye bye - what's up with patch patch_order and jumpstart ?

[Martin Paul]

Gael Martinez wrote:
> Quick question to the PCA list, with the jar format being discontinued, who
> else is stuck with the profile entry not working ?
> 
> patch patch_order http://10.115.176.59/Images/10/1009/RC1/Patches/sparctimeout 5

Interesting. I didn't know that only JAR format is supported in this setup, but 
I've verified it in the Jumpstart docs now.

> Before opening a slow case, I was wondering if somebody knew how to continue
> using that jumpstart feature  ?

It would be interesting to see what Oracle says about this. If you open a case, 
please let us know about the answer.

As for alternatives: I guess you could use NFS instead of HTTP, but then I think 
you'll have to store the patches in extracted directory format (ie. unzipped).

Or you use a custom finish script instead of the "patch" keyword. Either write 
one yourself which gets the patches via wget one by one, extracts them to /tmp 
and installs them. Or use PCA in a finish script.

Martin.