[pca] Can pca check two different local sources?

[Martin Paul]

Craig S. Bell wrote:
>   Can I somehow configure pca to look on the share first, then query the
> proxy server if any of the desired patches are not present?  I should say
> that I want patchdir to be somewhere different altogether, so I can stage
> patches locally on each client.

I guess I know what you want, and it's currently not possible. The good thing is 
that this is on top of my todo-list for PCA. The plan is to allow multiple URLs 
with PCA's "patchurl" option. You could then use e.g.:

   pca --patchurl "file:/path http://server/pca-proxy.cgi ORACLE"

This would make PCA look at /path, then the pca proxy, and at last at Oracle's 
server until it finds the patch.

Right now I'm busy with other tasks (which also explains my delayed reply), but 
I expect to have this implemented in one or two weeks. Until then, Rajiv's idea 
of using two PCA runs to get all patches might be a working alternative.

Martin.