[pca] option --rec=xxx not working?

[Martin Paul]

Am 22.08.2012 17:02, schrieb Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia):
> Can  the --rec option be used with the --minimal option?  Or, is my
> use of --minimal causing the elimination of the extra patch from the
> result set?

I'm afraid that you will indeed have to run PCA twice for that.

The "--minimal" option is kind of special, in that it works right when 
reading the xref file. As 118777-16 is in the Recommended Patchset, PCA 
does not know about 118777-18 later when the --rec option is evaluated.

This is all due to PCA only being able to store and handle a single 
revision per patch. That was fine for a long time, as the xref never 
included information about older patch revisions, only the current. This 
changed only when Sun/Oracle added extra lines for the patches included 
in the Recommended Patchset. As it would have required an enormous 
amount of time to change the internal data structures in PCA to work 
with multiple patch revisions, I chose the much simpler approach, as 
described above.

The idea is that IF you use --minimal, you stick to exactly that patch 
set. This makes a lot of sense, as that's what Oracle recommends: You 
then have a supported and tested configuration. If you add single 
patches later on, you're on your own again.

Martin.