[pca] Date issue

[Marcel Hofstetter]

Hi Stuart

and  pca -l all works?



Am 17.08.2022 um 16:20 schrieb Stuart Biggar:
> Seems to work on an ancient Solaris 10 SPARC system (with the built-in perl version as far as I know):
> 
> [titan : /etc : 3 ] cat release
>                         Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b SPARC
>             Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
>                          Use is subject to license terms.
>                              Assembled 16 August 2007
> [titan : /etc : 4 ] cd /tank/patch
> [titan : /tank/patch : 5 ] perl -v
> 
> This is perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int
> (with 47 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
> 
> Copyright 1987-2004, Larry Wall
> 
> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
> 
> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
> this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
> Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
> 
> [titan : /tank/patch : 6 ] ./pca -d missing
> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Aug/16/22
> Host: titan (SunOS 5.10/Generic_153153-06/sparc/sun4u)
> List: missing (0/0)
> 
> [titan : /tank/patch : 10 ] ./pca -v
> pca 20190715-02
> 
> I used pca to update the system to the current level about 15 days ago.  Worked OK then and doesn’t find anything to download this morning.  Granted this is a really old SPARC system - we do have 11.4 on newer intel machines but don’t use pca there.
> 
> Stuart
> 
>> On Aug 17, 2022, at 07:09, Ken Harford <kharford at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Marcel for the information. I guess the question is does it work for Solaris 10 anymore? I don’t have the option of updating to Solaris 11.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>> On Aug 17, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Marcel Hofstetter <hofstetter at jomasoft.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Ken
>>>
>>> I can confirm, we have the same problem on Solaris 10.
>>>
>>> It works on Solaris 11 with newer perl version
>>>
>>> -bash-5.1$ perl -v
>>>
>>> This is perl 5, version 32, subversion 0 (v5.32.0) built for sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64
>>>
>>> Copyright 1987-2020, Larry Wall
>>>
>>> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
>>> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
>>>
>>> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
>>> this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
>>> Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Marcel Hofstetter
>>> JomaSoft GmbH
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 16.08.2022 um 21:00 schrieb Ken Harford:
>>>> Addendum
>>>> I have updated perl to 5.10 and now this is what I receive as an error message:
>>>> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Aug/15/22
>>>> Day too big - 36890 > 24853
>>>> Cannot handle date (0, 0, 0, 01, 0, 2071) at ./pca line 2511
>>>> perl -V
>>>> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration:
>>>>   Platform:
>>>>     osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=i86pc-solaris
>>>>     uname='sunos wdpv2vilv01 5.10 generic_150401-28 i86pc i386 i86pc '
>>>>     config_args='-Dcc=gcc'
>>>>     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
>>>>     useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
>>>>     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
>>>>     use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
>>>>     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
>>>>   Compiler:
>>>>     cc='gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV',
>>>>     optimize='-O',
>>>>     cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
>>>>     ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.6', gccosandvers='solaris2.10'
>>>>     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
>>>>     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
>>>>     ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
>>>>     alignbytes=4, prototype=define
>>>>   Linker and Libraries:
>>>>     ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib '
>>>>     libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
>>>>     libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
>>>>     perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
>>>>     libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
>>>>     gnulibc_version=''
>>>>   Dynamic Linking:
>>>>     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
>>>>     cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'
>>>> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
>>>>   Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
>>>>                         PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO
>>>>   Built under solaris
>>>>   Compiled at Aug 16 2022 14:51:12
>>>> Ken
>>>>> On Aug 16, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Ken Harford <kharford at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> This already may have been addressed but I am new here
>>>>>
>>>>> When running  "pca -l all” on Solaris 10 I get the following error:
>>>>>
>>>>> Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Aug/15/22
>>>>> Cannot handle date (0, 0, 0, 01, 0, 2071) at ./pca line 2511
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anybody else run into this? And if so is there a workaround?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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