James,
I do not see the -I option in the usage.html page, what does -I do?
Look for "-I, --pretend". It does everything that --install does,
without actually installing the patch(es).
On my test box last night I used "pca --askauth -d patch patch patch".
This looks like it downloaded just the 3 patches I specified on the
command line.
I've explained pca's behaviour about using 123456 vs. 123456-78 in the
other thread you started.
However the size was too big to actually be only the
patches I specified. How do I know all what was downloaded?
Kernel patches usually *are* big. pca will list all patches it
downloads, and you will find one zip file per patch in the current
working directory after running "pca -d ...". If patch 111111-01
requires 222222-02 and you run "pca -d 111111", you will end up with
111111-01.zip and 222222-02.zip in the current directory.
Hope that helps,
Martin.
