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

[Glen Gunselman]

Gordon,

I'm not doing what you are, but I go the other way and copy the "patchdiag.xref" file to each server - that way there is no need to keep the explorer ect. Files.

Glen

-----Original Message-----
From: pca [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Gordon Morrison
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:30 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Question: Downloading patches to a central server using pca-generated patch reports

Thanks for all your replies. I have got machine-specific patch downloads
working with explorer output.
Unfortunately due to disk space restrictions, keeping gunzipped & untar'd
explorers for all of our Solaris systems is not feasible.
The pca man page says:
" The output of the pkginfo, showrev and uname commands is used to gather
       information about the system."
So I just need to save the contents of <explorerdir>/ patch+pkg/* and
sysconfig/uname*.out for each target system in order to generate the list of
patches to download. Is this correct?

The alternative is to explode each explorer in turn and delete it
afterwards, which is doable, it just seems long-winded.
Thanks again.
Gordon