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Martin Paul wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4F1FBAE7.9010800@par.univie.ac.at" type="cite">Gael
Martinez wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">What would be the fastest/cleanest way with
pca to confirm/correct the
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right patching order for all patches placed in a flat file ?
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Assuming that the patches are specified in patchID + revision format
(xxxxxx-yy), PCA can't help you much here. The problem is that PCA uses
the information from patchdiag.xref to build the patch dependency tree,
but the file only contains information about the most recent revision
of each patch.
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patchadd knows about those dependencies because it uses the "patchinfo"
file contained in the patch zip file. For PCA to do the same for a list
of patches, it would have to download all patches first instead of
relying on the xref file, which is kind of impractical.
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Basically, as soon as you start to use patches in the form of xxxxxx-yy
with PCA it will (and has to) assume that you take care of the
dependencies and the ordering yourself. If you have a self-maintained
list of patches, it's probably easiest to to try to install them on a
test machine to get the correct ordering.
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Dumping all the patches in a single directory and using 'patchadd -M'
may help...<br>
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Best,<br>
-Don <br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4F1FBAE7.9010800@par.univie.ac.at" type="cite"><br>
Martin.
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