Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref

2014-12-02 Thread Tim Hosfelt
Thanks for the info, Billy was able to supply me with a couple but if anyone has them I'd like to get the patchdiags from September 1st, October 1st and November 1st. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Martin Paul wrote: > Am 01.12.2014 18:43, schrieb Tim Hosfelt: > >> Is there a way to get older p

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref

2014-12-02 Thread Martin Paul
Am 01.12.2014 18:43, schrieb Tim Hosfelt: Is there a way to get older patchdiag.xref files from Oracle - I'd like to get ones from early to mid September and October. No, unfortunately Oracle doesn't provide an archive. Many PCA users do so, though, so if you post specific dates here I'm sure

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref

2014-12-01 Thread Pearson, Billy
From: pca [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Tim Hosfelt Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 11:43 AM To: pca@lists.univie.ac.at Subject: [pca] patchdiag.xref Is there a way to get older patchdiag.xref files from Oracle - I'd like to get ones from early to mid September and Oc

[pca] patchdiag.xref

2014-12-01 Thread Tim Hosfelt
Is there a way to get older patchdiag.xref files from Oracle - I'd like to get ones from early to mid September and October.

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref download broken

2013-07-22 Thread Martin Paul
Am 22.07.2013 10:42, schrieb Jan Holzhueter: seems like the patchdiag.xref download is broken atm. I didn't try it in the last 72 hours, but as of now it seems to work again. Martin.

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref download broken

2013-07-22 Thread BABAULT . Daniel
Hi, Same problem since july 19 Daniel -Message d'origine- De : pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] De la part de Jan Holzhueter Envoyé : lundi 22 juillet 2013 10:43 À : PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Objet : [pca] patchdiag.xref download b

[pca] patchdiag.xref download broken

2013-07-22 Thread Jan Holzhueter
Hi, seems like the patchdiag.xref download is broken atm. ./pca.perl -l -V Option list: 1 Option patchdir: /home/jh/patches/. Option debug: 1 Command: ./pca.perl ARGV: missing Version: 20120829-01 CWD: /home/jh/patches Found /usr/sfw/bin/wget (1.12, 11200, https) Found /usr/bin/wget (1.12, 11200,

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes broken for 2 days.

2013-02-28 Thread Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia)
ok...@towerswatson.com -Original Message- From: pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-boun...@lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 7:22 AM To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion Subject: Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes broken for 2 days. Am 21.02.2013 1

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes broken for 2 days.

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Paul
Am 21.02.2013 16:38, schrieb Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia): I've been closely watching the daily changes in the patchdiag.xref in the past 2 weeks. I've found a serious problem that will result in PCA not applying patches that should be applied if certain versions of patchdiag.xref are used. Co

[pca] patchdiag.xref changes broken for 2 days.

2013-02-21 Thread Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia)
I've been closely watching the daily changes in the patchdiag.xref in the past 2 weeks. I've found a serious problem that will result in PCA not applying patches that should be applied if certain versions of patchdiag.xref are used. This is a timing/race issue where recommended patches are remove

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

2011-10-03 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Martin, I followed up with the team that generates patchdiag on Friday. There was a recent code change to better handle EOL patches that triggered the issue you reported on Friday. All should be fixed now. Best, -Don On 03/10/11 08

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

2011-10-03 Thread Martin Paul
Don O'Malley wrote: That said, something has happened to trigger 119081-25 being marked as obsolete (I suspect this is a result of an internal process). In the current patchdiag.xref (Oct/02/11) the state of 119081-25 has been reverted to active (not obsolete) again. Same for the other 7 patch

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

2011-09-30 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Martin, I'll investigate. In a nutshell the relationship between patches 119081-25 & 124628-14 is that patch 119081-xx was rejuvenated into patch 124628-xx. Patch rejuvenation is explained a the top of http://blogs.oracle.com/patch/entry/solaris_10_kernel_patchid_progression That said, so

[pca] patchdiag.xref inconsistency

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Paul
In today's patchdiag.xref, patch 119081-25 is suddenly marked as "Obsolete". nut there is no sign by which patch it would have been obsoleted: usually, the synopsis (last column in xref file) contains a note "Obsoleted by xx-xx". As there are two patches which require 119081-25 (namely 1246

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-19 Thread Martin Paul
Hi, I do maintain a 'patchdiag.xref wishlist' myself too :-) I know that it's not that simple, but this sounds like Santa Claus writing a letter to himself! :) - patch size (zipped/unzipped) I have this on my list (definitely the zipped filesize anyway). The size of the unzipped patch

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-16 Thread Don O'Malley
Sorry for the delay replying to this mail... I do maintain a 'patchdiag.xref wishlist' myself too :-) On 08/09/11 08:59, Martin Paul wrote: dpecka wrote: i'm suggesting to think about these fields: - patch bundle

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-08 Thread Glenn Satchell
This would be a massive file, maybe 10-20 times the size of the current patchdiag.xref. What about an online version, using some sort of database? Put in a date as a parameter and it returns the patchdiag.xref constructed for that date? Or a patch number and you get the whole history for that

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-08 Thread Martin Paul
Thomas, I wonder if this feature could be integrated into We Sun Solve website, as from the patchdiag.xref archive, I could generate a patchdiag.xref with latest revision as base and then add older revision of patches into it by looking at patchdiag.xref archive. Yes, you're right. Theoretica

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Martin, On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:59:27 +0200 Martin Paul wrote: > - include all patch revisions, not just the latest I wonder if this feature could be integrated into We Sun Solve website, as from the patchdiag.xref archive, I could generate a patchdiag.xref with latest revision as base and then

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-08 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: i'm suggesting to think about these fields: - patch bundle - readme md5sum - zipped patch md5sum I'll add these from my wishlist: - patch properties (rebootafter, etc.) - patch size (zipped/unzipped) - a new flag "always install first" for the patch utilities patches etc. - incl

[pca] patchdiag.xref feature request for Don

2011-09-07 Thread dpecka
hello Don, hello boys isn't possible to incorporate in patchdiag.xref as a new field some kind of info if that patch is also shipped with patch some bundle ? well, i know that it's not so easy hence the releases increment but just think about it. i'm suggesting to think about these fields: - pa

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Anything before september 2008 would interest me! You can consult eventual gaps in the archive there: http://wesunsolve.net/patchdiag the drop down list is containing every archive I have. Thanks to all! Thomas On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:02:49 -0400 Rajiv Gunja wrote: > So which year Xref are yo

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-18 Thread Rajiv Gunja
So which year Xref are you looking for? I can share 2009 (233) and some of 2008(78). Let me know. Thanks -GGR -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 09:31, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > Dennis, > > > > This is ok for theses one, I already got them all ;) > >

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dennis, > > This is ok for theses one, I already got them all ;) > I thought you had more xrefs from earlier than 2009 ;) > > Well, I do but I will have to go get a backup tape from .. somewhere. -- -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1D936C72FA35B44B +-

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Dennis, This is ok for theses one, I already got them all ;) I thought you had more xrefs from earlier than 2009 ;) Thanks anyway ! On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:13:59 -0400 (EDT) Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > Nothing received yet, > > > > Do you need a FTP server if the file is big so you can upload

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Nothing received yet, > > Do you need a FTP server if the file is big so you can upload it ? > No. I just have not gotten around to it :-) I don't have a huge stack of them .. but a few : # ls $PCA_XREFDIR getupdates.pem patchdiag.CHECKSUMS patchdiag.CHECKSUMS.old patchdiag.CHECKSUMS_05_May_2

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Nothing received yet, Do you need a FTP server if the file is big so you can upload it ? Regards, Thomas On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:21:34 -0400 (EDT) Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > Hello world! > > > > As Martin advised me to ask directly on the whole list, I'm there! > > I'm building an online arch

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Hello world! > > As Martin advised me to ask directly on the whole list, I'm there! > I'm building an online archives of old patchdiag.xref > (http://wesunsolve.net/patchdiag) > and thus, I've collected some patchdiags that various people gave me. > > If you have missing patchdiag's (older ones)

[pca] patchdiag.xref archive

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Hello world! As Martin advised me to ask directly on the whole list, I'm there! I'm building an online archives of old patchdiag.xref (http://wesunsolve.net/patchdiag) and thus, I've collected some patchdiags that various people gave me. If you have missing patchdiag's (older ones), theses could

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref shrunk

2011-07-14 Thread Don O'Malley
Don O'Malley wrote: Hi Martin, When we first migrated patch metadata to MOS (in June 2009) we never included metadata for patches for products that were EOSL. That should be June 2010! As part of the recent MOS 5.3 release we have aligned patchdiag.xref with the metadata available fr

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref shrunk

2011-07-14 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi Martin, When we first migrated patch metadata to MOS (in June 2009) we never included metadata for patches for products that were EOSL. As part of the recent MOS 5.3 release we have aligned patchdiag.xref with the metadata available from MOS. All of the patches that have disappeared have

[pca] patchdiag.xref shrunk

2011-07-13 Thread Martin Paul
With today's patchdiag.xref ("AS OF Jul/12/11") many patches have disappeared from the file. At a quick glance, it seems that it affects patches for old Solaris versions (up to Solaris 7), patches for old unbundled software and nearly all of the over 5000 unbundled "PTF/RMLS" patches. There ar

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-17 Thread Boxall, John
Martin, It's called the Ops Center (or UCE) Knowledge Base, for which you have spend large sums of money. And then it isn't always right either. John

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff
Maybe these guys can build and host it: http://sunsolve.espix.org/ They seem to be bringing back all the patch research functionality we lost when Oracle shutdown Sunsolve. Hopefully they don't get sued into oblivion, but since they don't host the patches, just point to them in MOS, they are pro

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Paul
Jeff wrote: A new procedure would have pca download a copy of 144488-11, grab the dependency info from within the zip, replace the info in a temporary patchdiag.xref, and then do the normal dependency checks. Not that I wouldn't have thought about that before :) I'm not sure how practical it w

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff
Something that comes to mind as a good use for this if it were integrated into pca is a way to get around the problems associated with specifying a version of a patch that isn't in the current patchdiag.xref. As an example, say I want to install a back revision of the kernel patch, 144488-11. Curr

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-17 Thread Martin Paul
Jeff, Thanks a lot for giving the script a try and reporting the results. I'm surprised that it worked so fine on the first attempt. Using it with the Update cluster is an interesting application, too - good idea! I have now put the mkxref script on the "Contrib" section of the PCA webpage. I

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-16 Thread Jeff
OK, I tested this and it works great. Using the patchdiag created from the CPU, I was able to download, install and reboot the server in the amount of time it would take me to copy the 2GB tarball and start extracting it, and instead of having to try installing each of the 200+ patches like the in

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-16 Thread Jeff
Just to add another thought. Another great use for this would be with the bundles that are created to patch to a update level rather then doing a LiveUpgrade. I'll try it against the Update 9 patch bundle and see what happens. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Jeff wrote: > This is awesome Mart

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref for CPU

2011-06-16 Thread Jeff
This is awesome Martin, my guess is it might make a patchdiag file more accurate then the real one since it would use the info that patchadd would use to decide if it needs to be installed. I'll give it a test and see if the results match if I installed the CPU from the bundled install scripts, bu

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref from March 2009

2011-04-08 Thread Rajiv Gunja
By the way, for some reason, April 10th 2009 was the last valid Sol 8 Xref file I can use. If you want that, I can send it over. -GGR -- Rajiv G Gunja Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com 2011/4/8 İhsan Doğan > On 04/ 8/11 09:00 AM, İhsan Doğan wrote: > > Solaris 8 entered EOL phase 2 by 1st A

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref from March 2009

2011-04-08 Thread İhsan Doğan
On 04/ 8/11 09:00 AM, İhsan Doğan wrote: Solaris 8 entered EOL phase 2 by 1st April 2009. Does anybody still have a patchdiag.xref from March 2009, where all the Solaris 8 Patches can be downloaded with a regular support contract? Thanks to everybody who have sent me the file so quickly. I

[pca] patchdiag.xref from March 2009

2011-04-08 Thread İhsan Doğan
Hi, Solaris 8 entered EOL phase 2 by 1st April 2009. Does anybody still have a patchdiag.xref from March 2009, where all the Solaris 8 Patches can be downloaded with a regular support contract? Ihsan -- ih...@dogan.ch http://blog.dogan.ch/

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref from Mar 31st, 2009

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Paul
Martin Paul wrote: I've been asked for a copy of patchdiag.xref from the date before the Solaris 8 Vintage support has been introduced. I don't have one myself, can anybody provide a copy (by personal e-mail)? Got it, thanks to Dagobert and Rajiv! Martin.

[pca] patchdiag.xref from Mar 31st, 2009

2010-09-20 Thread Martin Paul
I've been asked for a copy of patchdiag.xref from the date before the Solaris 8 Vintage support has been introduced. I don't have one myself, can anybody provide a copy (by personal e-mail)? I guess there should be a: ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Mar/31/09 ## but anything a

Re: [pca] Patchdiag.xref repository ...

2010-06-28 Thread Don Jackson
On Jun 28, 2010, at 2:19 AM, Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE wrote: > from now on I am > going to create a script > that will keep a repository of files … Good idea. I have something like the following in a shell script that gets launched by cron every day…. mailto=sysad...@example.com export SOLARIS

Re: [pca] Patchdiag.xref repository ...

2010-06-28 Thread Martin Paul
Ray, ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF May/27/10 ## I would like to move to the patchdiag.xref that has revision 12 . (142900-12) I have a copy of the file "AS OF May/31/10", which seems to be the one where 142900-12 showed up for the first time - I'll send you a copy in a priv

[pca] Patchdiag.xref repository ...

2010-06-28 Thread Cromwell, Ray, VF-IE
Hi , I have a problem with a kernel patch that is very buggy , 142900-11 . I am using diag file --> ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF May/27/10 ## I would like to move to the patchdiag.xref that has revision 12 . (142900-12) Does anybody keep copies of patchdiag.xref files ,

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref

2009-03-25 Thread Don O'Malley
Hi All, The patchdiag.xref file is up to date again. Sorry for any inconvenience. Best, -Don Don O'Malley wrote: I'll follow up... Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: Just FYI - it seems as if updates to the patchdiag.xref have been suspended once again. The most recent file I get is: ## PAT

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref

2009-03-25 Thread Don O'Malley
I'll follow up... Best, -Don Martin Paul wrote: Just FYI - it seems as if updates to the patchdiag.xref have been suspended once again. The most recent file I get is: ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Mar/20/09 ## Martin.

[pca] patchdiag.xref

2009-03-25 Thread Martin Paul
Just FYI - it seems as if updates to the patchdiag.xref have been suspended once again. The most recent file I get is: ## PATCHDIAG TOOL CROSS-REFERENCE FILE AS OF Mar/20/09 ## Martin.

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-21 Thread Martin Paul
Laurent Blume wrote: I've noticed that patchdiag.xref hasn't been updated in a week, and wondered if it's related to the planned changes: Updates to patchdiag.xref are still stuck. Sun knows about it, and the SunSolve team are looking into the underlying issue. That's all the information I go

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Glen Gunselman
Glen Gunselman Systems Software Specialist TCS Emporia State University >>> Laurent Blume [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/15/2008 10:46 AM >> ( mailto:[EMAIL >>> PROTECTED]> ) > Yes, I've heard about it, as far as I remember, it's about the ZFS boot, > right? Trouble to downgrade after installing U6,

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Blume
Glen Gunselman a écrit : > I heard there was at least one show stopper bug found in U6. Do you > know if the 27th date takes that into account? Yes, I've heard about it, as far as I remember, it's about the ZFS boot, right? Trouble to downgrade after installing U6, if it's needed. They're working

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Glen Gunselman
>>> Laurent Blume [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/15/2008 7:13 AM >> ( mailto:[EMAIL >>> PROTECTED]> ) ... > The date I've heard for U6, from Sun people, is 27th. I heard there was at least one show stopper bug found in U6. Do you know if the 27th date takes that into account? Glen Gunselman Sys

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Blume
Andy Fiddaman a écrit : > I'd assumed it was due to Solaris 10u6 being very imminent (this week > hopefully!). That's also presumably why there have only been half a > dozen Solaris 10 patches over the last month. I thought so for the first few days, but don't forget there are also all other versi

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Martin Paul
Laurent Blume wrote: With the release of SunSolve in October 2008, ... This sounds like a bigger change on sunsolve.sun.com, so this really might be the root cause. I've sent a message to Gerry Haskins, but he's currently out of the office. Thanks for the link to the InfoDoc - I didn't

Re: [pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Laurent Blume wrote: ; Hi all, ; ; I've noticed that patchdiag.xref hasn't been updated in a week, and ; wondered if it's related to the planned changes: I'd assumed it was due to Solaris 10u6 being very imminent (this week hopefully!). That's also presumably why there have

[pca] patchdiag.xref changes

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Blume
Hi all, I've noticed that patchdiag.xref hasn't been updated in a week, and wondered if it's related to the planned changes: «October 2008 - html tags will be removed In March 2008, html tags were added to the beginning and end of patchdiag.xref. The tags were introduced to resolve a proble

[pca] patchdiag.xref -- got all versions

2008-07-15 Thread Rajiv Gunja
Hello, Thank you all for sending me you patchdiag files. I have the files from those 2 days I want. I have started archive all new patchdiag.xref files released by SUN. If anyone needs from a particular date to comply with their OS or company needs, please drop me a line. Thanks -GGR --- Rajiv

[pca] patchdiag.xref

2008-07-11 Thread Rajiv Gunja
Hello, This might come across as a strange request: If anyone has archived their patchdiag.xref file from SUN, I need this file at two different dates: 1. Around Feb 28th 2008 2. Around May 31st 2008 Thanks in advance. -GGR --- Rajiv G Gunja