[pca] pca patch download fails with Unknown error/patch not found

[Becktold, Lisa M. (LARC-B7)[Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc.]]

Martin Paul and Martin Wismer:

Thanks for your replies!

I downloaded and installed wget (and all required dependency software) from sunfreeware.com on two different Sun servers.  The pca.perl script successfully downloaded most of the recommended security patches, but about a third failed to download with the "Failed (Unknown Error)" message:

	# ./pca.perl -d -P /usr/local/patches missingrs
	Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Oct/02/11
	Host: XXXX (SunOS 5.10/Generic_139555-08/sparc/sun4v)
	List: missingrs (171/55678)
	.......
	Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (zip) (1/1)
	.......
	Looking for 147436-01 (170/171)
	Trying Oracle
	Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (zip) (1/1)
	Failed (Unknown Error)
	Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (tar.Z) (1/1)
	Failed (Error 404: Not Found)
	Failed (patch not found)
	------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	147440 -- < 03 RS-   5 SunOS 5.10: Solaris kernel patch

	Looking for 147440-03 (171/171)
	Trying Oracle
	Trying https://getupdates.oracle.com/ (zip) (1/1)
	Done
	------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Download Summary: 171 total, 120 successful, 0 skipped, 51 failed

However, you were correct about using /usr/sfw/bin/wget.  I moved the sunfreeware wget out of the way, and put a link in /usr/local/bin to point to /usr/sfw/bin/wget.  Then I ran pca.perl again.  Those missing patches are downloading without error now!

Thanks a lot for your help!

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 5:07 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] pca patch download fails with Unknown error/patch not found

Martin.Wismer. wrote:
> There are also some "new" wget Releases. 1.13 and later needs some new 
> Libraries. What's the changes with 1.13.3 I don't know jet.

Ah, I hadn't noticed that. So I tried to compile wget 1.13.3 on a vanilla 
Solaris 10 system, and it failed with compiler errors. This seems to be due to 
the change that wget now uses GNU TSL instead of OpenSSL by default. But even 
when forcing it to use OpenSSL again (./configure --with-ssl=openssl), it failed 
with some linker error. Wonderful! :-(

So more than ever I recommend using the version of wget which is bundled with 
Solaris (as /usr/sfw/bin/wget) with PCA.

Martin.