[pca] different directory for patches

[Ben Taylor]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Martin Paul <martin.paul at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Am 23.01.2013 16:52, schrieb Stevenson, Bradley (NE):
>
>> Great! Does anyone know if the script will do disk space checking so it
>> knows
>> How much disk space it needs to install the patches. Or does anyone have a
>> Script to do this ?
>
>
> PCA doesn't do space checking. It's not that I wouldn't have thought about
> adding it, but I never found a reliable method to compute the required
> space, especially without extracting all patches before starting
> installation (like the cluster does).
>
> With patchadd using temporary space (/tmp, /var/run), making (multiple)
> backup copies of replaced files it's hard to find a reliable and provable
> method to compute required space.
>
> The good thing is that patchadd (which PCA uses for the actual patch
> installation) usually deals fine with interrupted patch installations, not
> leaving any partly installed patches.

It's always amazing to me all the consternation about working around
space issues when patching with Solaris 10 (or even 9 since I think
that's supported).  Considering live upgrade can be used to reorganize
boot disks space utilization issues (especially in the case of not
using ZFS)