[pca] pca and -R

Martin Paul martin at par.univie.ac.at
Fri Mar 26 11:40:48 CET 2010


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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