Am 22.08.2012 17:02, schrieb Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia):
Can the --rec option be used with the --minimal option? Or, is my
use of --minimal causing the elimination of the extra patch from the
result set?
I'm afraid that you will indeed have to run PCA twice for that.
The "--minimal" option is kind of special, in that it works right when
reading the xref file. As 118777-16 is in the Recommended Patchset, PCA
does not know about 118777-18 later when the --rec option is evaluated.
This is all due to PCA only being able to store and handle a single
revision per patch. That was fine for a long time, as the xref never
included information about older patch revisions, only the current. This
changed only when Sun/Oracle added extra lines for the patches included
in the Recommended Patchset. As it would have required an enormous
amount of time to change the internal data structures in PCA to work
with multiple patch revisions, I chose the much simpler approach, as
described above.
The idea is that IF you use --minimal, you stick to exactly that patch
set. This makes a lot of sense, as that's what Oracle recommends: You
then have a supported and tested configuration. If you add single
patches later on, you're on your own again.
Martin.
