[pca] no xref file?

[Jeff Earickson]

Don,

Thanks for the explanation.  You saved my Oracle Sales Rep an irate
phone call.  I have spent the past month+ trying to get my Sun/Oracle
support renewed, and it was not a smooth experience.  I got passed
around from person to person so I never knew who I was supposed to be
dealing with.  And as I got passed around, I kept getting
dropped/forgotten about.  I figured that the support software had cut
me off after the end of June because the sales people were still
screwing around with my PO and hadn't re-enabled my support.  But I
digress.

--- Jeff Earickson
Colby College


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Don O'Malley <don.omalley at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Martin/All,
>
> There has been no patchdiag.xref released since July7th due to the MOS 5.3 release over the weekend.
>
> MOS 5.3 is a major release for ex-Sun customers, as this release integrated a more native experience for Sun patches on MOS.
> I realize that this may not be of interest to a lot of folks using PCA, but there are some significant changes as a result of the MOS 5.3 release, including:
> - Patch metadata is now available for Sun patches from the MOS patch information page, including patch size, # downloads & checksum info.
> - Patch README files for Sun patches are now hosted natively by MOS (so there is no longer any need to punchout to sspatch for patch README's
>
> In order to enable this release, we needed to stop publishing patches (and reports like patchdiag.xref) over the weekend, so while there has been no updated version of patchdiag available, there has also been no additional patches released.
>
> Normal service should resume later today, so there'll be an updated version of patchdiag tomorrow.
>
> Sorry for any confusion.
>
> Best,
> -Don
>
> Martin Paul wrote:
>
> BABAULT.Daniel wrote:
>
> No problem for me
>
> patchdiag-110707.xref   07-Jul-2011 23:11  3.4M  patchdiag-110708.xref   08-Jul-2011 23:11  3.4M  patchdiag-110709.xref   09-Jul-2011 23:11  3.4M  patchdiag-110710.xref   10-Jul-2011 23:11  3.4M
>
> But if you compare the files, you'll see that nothing has changed since Jul/07/11:
>
>   $ pca -X . -x
>   Downloading xref file to /tmp/patchdiag.xref
>   Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (1/1)
>   $ head -1 patchdiag.xref
>   ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Jul/07/11 ##
>   $
>
> Even when there are no new patches, the date in the header usually gets updated.
>
> Don? :)
>
> Martin.
>
>
> --
>
> Don O'Malley
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