>From the way I understand how PCA works, when specifying a specific revision of a patch, it does no checking prior to trying to install, since it can't reference pre-reqs and supercedings in patchdiag.xref. As a test, I grabbed the patch list from the CPU readme and fed it into PCA, it downloaded and tried to apply all 209 patches. <br>
<br>I prefer to stick with only the revisions in the CPU, since I hope there is a greater chance they are well tested before released. You don't need to look any further then the last couple weeks when kernel patches 144488-13 through 144488-15 were withdrawn.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Glenn Satchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenn.satchell@uniq.com.au" target="_blank">glenn.satchell@uniq.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Unless the specific patch is already installed, so it should only download<br>
the new patches. So this is a win over downloading the whole 2GB patch<br>
bundle.<br>
<br>
If you strip the revision numbers off the list and use that, pca will get<br>
the latest version of each patch. The CPU revisions are not necessarily<br>
always the latest version.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">-glenn<br>
</font><div><div></div><div><br>
> From what I understand about how PCA works, if you specify a specific<br>
> patch<br>
> revision in a list, it isn't able to check supercedings and dependencies,<br>
> because it doesn't have a match in patchdiag.xref. So you would still end<br>
> up downloading all the patches and trying to apply them.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Gael Martinez<br>
> <<a href="mailto:gael.martinez@gmail.com" target="_blank">gael.martinez@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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>><br>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Jeff <<a href="mailto:variverrat@gmail.com" target="_blank">variverrat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> What would be even better is if the CPU contained a copy of<br>
>>> patchdiag.xref that can be used by PCA users to replicate the CPU.<br>
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>><br>
>> Why don't you use the patch_order file included in the CPU ? pca does<br>
>> accept a list of patch in a file ...<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Gaël Martinez<br>
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> --<br>
> Jeff<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeff<br>