[pca] Quarterly CPU and the xref

[Jones, Eric CIV SRF 1236]

Howdy everyone, I just recently started using PCA again after having so much trouble getting it to download and install patches.
I upgraded 2 boxes, one a sparc and one an X86, to 10 10/09.
I patched the SPARC and rebooted and was faced with an ugly "unable to create boot_archive" error which destroyed the FS. I tried using boot -F failsafe and spent 45 minutes hitting "y" until I just gave up swapped with the clone and dd'd back to health.
I have patched my other systems with pca 201006, no the current release, with no problem.
Any one else have an issue with the latest SPARC patches?
By the way I also did it with updatemanager with the same results. 


 Eric R. Jones
SRF JRMC
C1236
DSN 315-243-4196

STICK \'stik\ n. 1: A boomerang that doesn't work.
-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:06 PM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Quarterly CPU and the xref

Craig Bell wrote:
> Is it reasonable to expect transparent documentation?

Definitely. I wasn't aware of that problem, as I don't have to do audits, but I see no reason why we can't get ..

   .. a publically available list with CVEs -> patch ID-REVISION
   .. the CVE listed with the CR/bugfix number in the patch README

Even though the general recommendation from Oracle/Sun seems to be "install all patches or use patch clusters, but not single patches" 
nowadays, I don't see any harm caused by including this information, and let admins/sites work with the patch/change policy they prefer.

Martin.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 5285 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/private/pca/attachments/20100730/bf73bd10/attachment.bin