[pca] specifying alternate name for patchdiag.xref file?

[Don Jackson]

On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:45 AM, Martin Paul wrote:
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>> I keep local copies of the patchdiag.xref file.  I'd like to append
>> the date or some other unique string to each such patchdiag.xref
>> filename. Then, when I am installing a new machine, I would like to
>> pull/specify a specific patchdiag.xref file to be used for that
>> machine (tagged/QA'ed for my "release").
> 
> Making the name of the patchdiag.xref file configurable is actually not as easy as it might seem. One of the problems would be in combination with the local caching proxy, where the name of the requested file is used by pca to determine what type of file the client is asked for. With random names possible for patchdiag.xref, this detection would be more problematic, or at least require some strict guidelines for naming the file.
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> But it's no problem to achieve what you want with the options that are already there. Instead of naming the xref file e.g. "patchdiag.xref-rel" or "patchdiag.xref-20100301", just create directories with different names and put the patchdiag.xref into those.
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> You can then use either "xrefdir=/path/to/xref-rel" or "xrefurl=http://server/xref-20100301/" to point pca at the xref file you want to use.
> 
> Does that work for you?

Yes, that works.  Thanks for the idea!

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