[pca] Question: Downloading patches to a central server using pca-generated patch reports

[Gordon Morrison]

Hi,



I have recently discovered PCA and it's great at generating patch reports,
but how can I use those reports to download patch bundles for various
servers?



We download weekly explorers from all of our Solaris servers to a Linux
jumpbox for safekeeping, and I create patch reports for all of our Solaris
servers from those explorers using PCA on the Linux box.



How can I download the patches required for a particular Solaris server to
the Linux box using the patch report generated by PCA on the Linux box?



I've been playing with command line options and env variables, and I can’t
get the syntax right



e.g.  :



$ /usr/local/scripts/PATCHING/pca
/mssunix/pca/patch-reports/<pca-report>.txt --user=<user>
--passwd=<password>



ERROR: Unknown operand: Using



(PCA_PATCHDIR is set in the environment)

The "Using" obviously comes from the first line of the patch report, but
how can I use a patch report to generate a list of patches to download for
a particular server? This seems to me like an obvious way to do this, I
just can't get the syntax right.



PCA seems so great in other respects, I'd be surprised if it couldn't do
this. Do I have to manually generate a list of patches from the patch
report? (I could script it, but why re-invent the wheel?)



Thanks

Gordon
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