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

[Jeff]

>From the way I understand how PCA works, when specifying a specific revision
of a patch, it does no checking prior to trying to install, since it can't
reference pre-reqs and supercedings in patchdiag.xref.  As a test, I grabbed
the patch list from the CPU readme and fed it into PCA, it downloaded and
tried to apply all 209 patches.

I prefer to stick with only the revisions in the CPU, since I hope there is
a greater chance they are well tested before released.  You don't need to
look any further then the last couple weeks when kernel patches 144488-13
through 144488-15 were withdrawn.


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Glenn Satchell
<glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au>wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
>
>


-- 
Jeff
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