[pca] Duplicate patches

[Fredrich Maney]

Don,

Thanks. Yeah, I had that thought after I sent my message and did some
googling when I got back from lunch. I'm working on it now.

fpsm
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Fredrich Maney, SCSA, SCNA, SCSecA
UNIX Systems Administrator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-
> bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don Jackson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:08 PM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] Duplicate patches
> 
> 
> 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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