[pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

[dpecka]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 10:24 +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
> Keep in mind that pca's main intention is to identify those patches 
> which apply to a certain system, not to show patches which match a 
> certain criteria in the patchdiag.xref file.

ok, i keep, but honestly, i guess, that the very lot of people (probably
the most of them) are using your excellent script just for
checking/downloading for patches rather then installing them .. i never
installed any patch by using your script but i am using it everyday for
checking patches, reading READMEs, downloading them, etc ..

> 
> pca does not use column #7 to match patches to the installed OS release, 
> as this information has proven to be unreliable in the past. Some 
> patches have been described as "Unbundled" although they applied to e.g. 
> Solaris 10. Therefore, pca uses the information about the included 
> packages instead (#9).

tru dat, thanks for explanation, i expected something like this.

> 
> pca does use the archs column (#8), to determine whether a patch is e.g. 
>   for sparc (including distinction for sun4u, sun4v, etc.) or i386. This 
> column also includes patch requirements. There's no command line option 
> for pca to show e.g. all patches for "sparc.sun4u".
> 
> If you really want to filter the list of all patches for certain 
> criteria, patchfinder might be the way to go anyway ..
> 
> Martin.
> 

but however what you have said above is reasonable, i'm still convinced,
that this functionality should be also provided by pca.pl because
sunsolves's patchfinder tool parses a file in the same way and your
script already serves as a complete replacement for whole sunsolve site
and tools. this Q: is rather philosophic:

eg. should pca support a functionality which is probably sometimes not
very reliable but sunsolve supports it by using same way as pca could
without any big coding work?

regards martin and thanks for reply, daniel

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Daniel Pecka
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