<p dir="ltr">I usually move the xref file to the date it was downloaded. Usually we use xref which is at least 60 days old. Always use -y and specify the location of the xref file.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want to look at my scripts, please visit <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com">ossrocks.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">I usually create a tar file on 1 server and move the tar file to server being psyched. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 4, 2013 5:38 PM, "Ben Taylor" <<a href="mailto:bentaylor.solx86@gmail.com">bentaylor.solx86@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Thanks for mentioning this. We're slowing getting rid of Solaris, but being able to snapshot a patchdiag.xref file with the patches, and not have to deal with it trying to look up a new one make our process very consistent.<div>
<br></div><div>Ben</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Glen Gunselman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggunselm@emporia.edu" target="_blank">ggunselm@emporia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Martin,<br>
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> BTW, do you know PCA's "-y, --nocheckxref" option? It will make PCA skip<br>
> the check for updates of the xref file. If you use it with a frozen<br>
> patchdiag.xref file, everything should be fine.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I find both:<br>
<br>
--nocheckxref and --xrefdir<br>
<br>
very useful.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
GlenG<br>
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