[pca] Oracle removed support from patchdiag.xref for --minimal option in pca?

[Glenn Satchell]

Unless the specific patch is already installed, so it should only download
the new patches. So this is a win over downloading the whole 2GB patch
bundle.

If you strip the revision numbers off the list and use that, pca will get
the latest version of each patch. The CPU revisions are not necessarily
always the latest version.

regards,
-glenn

> From what I understand about how PCA works, if you specify a specific
> patch
> revision in a list, it isn't able to check supercedings and dependencies,
> because it doesn't have a match in patchdiag.xref.  So you would still end
> up downloading all the patches and trying to apply them.
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Gael Martinez
> <gael.martinez at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Jeff <variverrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   What would be even better is if the CPU contained a copy of
>>> patchdiag.xref that can be used by PCA users to replicate the CPU.
>>>
>>
>> Why don't you use the patch_order file included in the CPU ? pca does
>> accept a list of patch in a  file ...
>>
>> --
>> Gaël Martinez
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jeff
>