[rescue] patching Solaris - anyone used PCA

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Jay York <jay_york at verizon.net>
" 
" Yupper, that's the best one.  The Sun tools are all crap.  Of course,  
" this assumes that you don't want to pursue the method that Sun  
" prefers, which is periodic download of the Recommended clusters (which  
" can be had online by googling...)
" 
" One thing about pca that I haven't figured out is how to install  
" previously download patches.  I can download without installing, but  
" can't install without downloading at the same time.
" 

i've been using pca for ~6 mo +/-.  my pca.conf:

nobackup=all
user=##################
passwd=##################
patchdir=/export/install/patches/8/
patchurl=file://export/install/patches/8/
wget=/opt/csw/bin/wget
xrefdir=/usr/local/patchcheck_1.2/

pca goes to my patchdir before sunsolve.

yes, i'm still running s8.

i also have /usr/local/bin/wget from sunfreeware because sun's patch
access wget scripts won't work with 1.11 and pca won't work with 1.10.2
also, despite what sun's docs claim, i couldn't get https
authentication until i replaced the domain name for sunsolve with its
ip.  i spent several months with tech support before stumbling on
this, and they couldn't explain why one worked but not the other.

" On Dec 3, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
" 
" > http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
" >
" > Anyone used this?
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