Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Yup, I got screwed by the Sun Veritas patch one time, overlaying my 
Symantec version of Netbackup.  Luckily, the patch backed out and 
everything was ok.

Jeff Earickson
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jonathan Imber wrote:

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:56:14 +0100
From: Jonathan Imber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "'PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion'" <pca@lists.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

Jeff,

Great tip, I will probably add sendmail also.

!VERITAS will presumably exclude volume manager also.  I hope they don't decide 
to rebadge the product as Symantec.

Thanks,
Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff A. Earickson
Sent: 14 August 2008 11:52
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

Jonathan,

I put the following line in my .pca file to avoid Veritas Netbackup
and sendmail (I roll my own version of both):

pattern=!VERITAS|sendmail

The NOT VERITAS keeps the Sun version of Netbackup away.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jonathan Imber wrote:

Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:35:50 +0100
From: Jonathan Imber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca@lists.univie.ac.at>
To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion" <pca@lists.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

Thanks Martin,

I will add this to the pca.conf file a give it a go.

Is there any way I can force pca to only apply the recommended and security 
patches?

Thanks,
Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: 14 August 2008 11:26
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade

Jonathan,

Not being an experienced user of pca it did not immediately occur to me
that pca would also patch Netbackup, can anyone suggest the best method
of excluding patches for a particular application?

If you don't want to use the ignore option, you can alternatively use
the pattern option. Specify a negative pattern by starting it with '!'.
Example:

  pca --pattern '![nN]et[bB]ackup'

will not list any NetBackup patches. Attention - when using [t]csh you
must use '\!' instead of '!'). You can put:

  pattern=![nN]et[bB]ackup

in a pca.conf file, too.

Is it possible to remove any reference to Netbackup from the
patchdiag.xref file?

Although I don't usually recommend messing around with the xref file, it
should be fine in this case.

I know its possible to use the --ignore switch, but this will involve
identifying the patches and increasing the complexity of the command line.

The patch numbers for NetBackup will be pretty much constant, so it's
just to be done once. Put the ignore statements into a pca.conf file, so
you don't have to specify them on each run of pca.

Martin.



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