[pca] Download host name changed

[Marcel Hofstetter]

Hi all

Oracle stopped supporting smpatch which used getupdates.oracle.com.

A few MOS Docs are already updated.

updates.oracle.com is the new URL
for patchdiag.xref and for patch download.

Best regards,
Marcel Hofstetter
JomaSoft GmbH




Am 14.12.2021 um 11:06 schrieb Martin Paul:
> Hi Jeff (and everybody still reading this),
> 
> it’s been a long time since messages popped up on this mailing list :)
> 
> I took a look, and it seems as if getupdates.oracle.com 
> <http://getupdates.oracle.com> still exists, but the SSL certificate is 
> invalid for that hostname:
> 
> /usr/bin/wget --progress=dot:binary --ca-certificate=./pca -O 
> /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref 
> "https://getupdates.oracle.com/reports/patchdiag.xref 
> <https://getupdates.oracle.com/reports/patchdiag.xref>"
> --2021-12-14 10:44:10-- 
> https://getupdates.oracle.com/reports/patchdiag.xref 
> <https://getupdates.oracle.com/reports/patchdiag.xref>
> Resolving getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com> 
> (getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com>)... 
> 104.96.155.106, 2a02:26f0:ea:48d::4425, 2a02:26f0:ea:486::4425
> Connecting to getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com> 
> (getupdates.oracle.com 
> <http://getupdates.oracle.com>)|104.96.155.106|:443... connected.
> ERROR: no certificate subject alternative name matches
> requested host name 'getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com>'.
> To connect to getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com> 
> insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate’.
> 
> I looked at the certificate details of https://getupdates.oracle.com 
> <https://getupdates.oracle.com> in the browser, and it seems as if the 
> certificate is for peo-eas-esps-prod.oracle.com 
> <http://peo-eas-esps-prod.oracle.com> and has a lot of alternative names 
> (e.g. updates.oracle.com <http://updates.oracle.com>), but 
> getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com> is missing in this 
> list, and the certificate is therefore not valid for that hostname.
> 
> Unfortunately Don O’Malley doesn’t seem to work for Oracle anymore, but 
> back in 2018 he told me about two other guys working for the patch team. 
> I contacted them, let’s see if they can get the certficate fixed so PCA 
> would work out of the box again.
> 
> Until then, everybody still using PCA can use Jeff’s workaround.
> 
> Best,
> Martin.
> 
> 
>> Am 10.12.2021 um 16:59 schrieb Jeff Wieland <wieland at purdue.edu 
>> <mailto:wieland at purdue.edu>>:
>>
>> The hostname for downloading patchdiag.xref appears to have changed
>> from getupdates.oracle.com <http://getupdates.oracle.com> to 
>> updates.oracle.com <http://updates.oracle.com>.
>>
>> Of course you can fix this by adding the following to your .pca file:
>>
>> ohost=updates.oracle.com <http://updates.oracle.com>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Wieland, UNIX Systems Administrator
>> Purdue University IT Infrastructure Services UNIX Platforms
>>
>>
>