[pca] Duplicate patches

[Don Jackson]

How about only making patches via pca, and put some code in jumpstart finish script to patch new builds via pca.  That way you are always using pca,
and need only to store the one format.  Just a thought…..

Don


On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Fredrich Maney wrote:

> All,
> 
> I've run into something rather frustrating. Namely that the finish
> scripts for patching expect patches to be an extracted patch cluster
> - i.e. a directory containing a patch_order file and subdirectories
> for each patch; while PCA looks for individual zip archives for each
> patch. This is forcing me to store every patch at least twice - once
> in a repository for PCA as a zip file, and once for every patch cluster
> that I have for my Jumpstart environment.
> 
> For example, for Jumpstart:
> /jumpstart/Patches/10_Recommended/patches/141588-04
> /jumpstart/Patches/10_Recommended/patches/141899-03
> 
> And for PCA:
> /patchrep/141588-04.zip
> /patchrep/141899-03.zip
> 
> Ideally I'd like to just have to store one copy of the patch in
> some sort of compressed manner. Does anyone have any suggestions on
> how I could accomplish consolidating these?
> 
> Thanks,
> fpsm
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