[pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

[Jeff]

Maybe these guys can build and host it:

http://sunsolve.espix.org/

They seem to be bringing back all the patch research functionality we lost
when Oracle shutdown Sunsolve.

Hopefully they don't get sued into oblivion, but since they don't host the
patches, just point to them in MOS, they are probably OK.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at>wrote:

> Jeff wrote:
>
>> A new procedure
>> would have pca download a copy of 144488-11, grab the dependency info from
>> within the zip, replace the info in a temporary patchdiag.xref, and then
>> do
>> the normal dependency checks.
>>
>
> Not that I wouldn't have thought about that before :)
>
> I'm not sure how practical it would be, though, as even with a local
> caching proxy this might take forever for patches with many requirements.
> And then I start thinking whether it wouldn't be better to cache the
> information, or even collect it centrally (so not every user has to extract
> it on his own), and then I end up thinking about what we really need: A
> master patchdiag.xref with all patch revisions. But Oracle doesn't produce
> it, and they most probably won't allow anybody else to compile (from
> patchinfo, or a collection of past xref files) and distribute it for legal
> reasons.
>
> Martin.
>
>


-- 
Jeff
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