Re: [pca] 404 Not Found!

2012-04-19 Thread Myers, Mike
It's an old Sun reference that hasn't been updated to Oracle. Here's the correct URL: https://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/merging_the_solaris_recommended_and Cheers, - Mike Myers -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at]

Re: [pca] Where have all the patch related email reports gone?

2010-03-05 Thread Myers, Mike
I haven't been getting these either. I'd just assumed my subscription had been "lost" in the whole Sun->Oracle transfer but I re-verified it last week and still no emails... Cheers, - Mike.Myers nwdc.net -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@list

Re: [pca] 137137: Unsupported root filesystem

2010-03-03 Thread Myers, Mike
I ran into this and spent some time tracking it down: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5421069&messageID=10891459 Short answer: a bug in the patch doesn't like boot environment names that are too long. I never did log a bug on it. Cheers, - Mike.Myers nwdc.net -Original Messag

Re: [pca] [OT] OpenSolaris / IPS support & patching

2009-12-15 Thread Myers, Mike
I might add that we're right now designing a process to use Live Upgrade to convert VxVM encapsulated disks to SVM "encapsulated" ones. The process is actually pretty easy -- break mirror, create ABE on mirror, optionally patch the ABE, activate it then reboot. If things aren't to your liking

Re: [pca] Patch download issues today?

2009-06-17 Thread Myers, Mike
There's definitely something up at Sun...again. Trying to download 139439-03 I get a file named 139439-03.zip but inside is HTML that says (HTML stripped): -- An FTP authentication failure occurred while trying to retrieve the URL: ftp://sso...@patches.sun.com/patchroot/all/9

Re: [pca] Wrong patches downloaded

2008-12-12 Thread Myers, Mike
You have to prove it's...perfect? Wow... PCA uses the patchdiag.xref file which has 10 fields (see http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-240587-1 for the official documentation of it). Field 8 is "OS Version". For this specific patch it's listed as "unbundled" which means t

Re: [pca] PCA Forum Link - And question about PCA

2008-11-26 Thread Myers, Mike
Jack VAN GORKUM said: > I trust PCA more than any other method Sun has. Here here! A tribute to Martin and a sad comment on Sun. - Mike.Myers nwdc.net

[pca] Broken patchdiag.xref...again...

2008-05-07 Thread Myers, Mike
Looks like Sun's handing out a patchdiag.xref with truncated lines: ERROR: Can't parse input from /patches/patchdiag.xref: 103697|05|Mar/19/99| |S|O| |2.5.1_x86|i386;103641-35 SunOS 5.5.1_x86: /sbin/su, /usr/bin/su and I've tried downloading it a second time to no avail. If I constructed my