[pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

[Jeff]

Just to add another thought.  Another great use for this would be with the
bundles that are created to patch to a update level rather then doing a
LiveUpgrade.

I'll try it against the Update 9 patch bundle and see what happens.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Jeff <variverrat at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is awesome Martin, my guess is it might make a patchdiag file more
> accurate then the real one since it would use the info that patchadd would
> use to decide if it needs to be installed.
>
> I'll give it a test and see if the results match if I installed the CPU
> from the bundled install scripts, but I think this is a great solution.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>wrote:
>
>> After the idea came up to create a special patchdiag.xref which only
>> includes the patches of a Critical Patch Cluster (CPU), I couldn't resist
>> and gave it a try.
>>
>> I downloaded the "CPU OS Cluster 2011/04 Solaris 10 SPARC" and hacked up a
>> script (mkxref, see attachment) which extracts the necessary information
>> from the patch READMEs, patchinfo and pkginfo files and creates a
>> patchdiag.xref file. The idea is that this can then be used with PCA to
>> patch systems to the state of the CPU without actually having to download
>> the +2GB file (on every system).
>>
>> Take care: The script is mostly untested. It's hard to verify whether the
>> patchdiag.xref it creates is 100% correct. It works with PCA, and I've
>> compared a few sample patches with their entries in the real xref file, and
>> they looked fine. The Recommended/Security flags are missing (they are not
>> in the patchinfo file), but this shouldn't matter.
>>
>> I'm including both the script and the patchdiag.xref file I created from
>> the above mentioned CPU. If anybody does some experiments with it, I'd be
>> happy to hear about it. Theoretically, one can generate xref files for any
>> set of patches with the script, which might be of use in other regards than
>> with the CPU as well.
>>
>> Martin.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jeff
>



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Jeff
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