[pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread dpecka
Hi there, i guess that not only me can see today, that pca is unable to work now. regards, daniel -- Best Regards / S Pozdravem Daniel Pecka -- SunOS Specialist, IT Administrator www.techniservit.cz

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: i guess that not only me can see today, that pca is unable to work now. Same here. SunSolve is unresponsive, access to e.g. https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref via the browser or wget hangs as well .. Martin.

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Bleek Thomas
It is working here ok, tb Am 31.05.2010 um 09:20 schrieb Martin Paul: > dpecka wrote: >> i guess that not only me can see today, that pca is unable to work now. > > Same here. SunSolve is unresponsive, access to e.g. > > https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref > > via the

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
2010/5/31 Martin Paul : > dpecka wrote: >> >> i guess that not only me can see today, that pca is unable to work now. > > Same here. SunSolve is unresponsive, access to e.g. > >  https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref > > via the browser or wget hangs as well .. For me, it's w

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
Alexander Skwar wrote: 2010/5/31 Martin Paul : dpecka wrote: i guess that not only me can see today, that pca is unable to work now. Same here. SunSolve is unresponsive, access to e.g. https://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=patchdiag.xref via the browser or wget hangs as well .. For

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread dpecka
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 09:29 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: > > Yes, seems to be OK again. > > Martin. > not for me, but no worry, i suppose that it will be working soon since i can't even download patchdiag.xref by hand, so problem is not evidently in pca.pl itself .. btw, i investigated a bit beca

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: btw, i investigated a bit because i have found, that in .xref file is in position #7 and #8 (indexed from zero) architecture or so .. at http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchfinder/ you can check and find wanted patches by using several more filters which pca.pl doesn't know like above men

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread dpecka
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 10:24 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: > Keep in mind that pca's main intention is to identify those patches > which apply to a certain system, not to show patches which match a > certain criteria in the patchdiag.xref file. ok, i keep, but honestly, i guess, that the very lot of

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: pca does not use column #7 to match patches to the installed OS release, as this information has proven to be unreliable in the past. Some patches have been described as "Unbundled" although they applied to e.g. Solaris 10. Therefore, pca uses the information about the included p

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-05-31 Thread dpecka
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 15:39 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: > Anyway, what kind of queries are you (or is everybody) using patchfinder > for, that pca doesn't support? Maybe I'm just missing something which is > extremely useful. > > Martin. > no, you're not missing something "extremely useful" .. i

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-01 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 15:39 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: Anyway, what kind of queries are you (or is everybody) using patchfinder for, that pca doesn't support? Maybe I'm just missing something which is extremely useful. no, you're not missing something "extremely useful" .. i only

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi. 2010/6/1 Martin Paul > The problem with some fields is that the possible values are of very > different length. As I want to keep a fixed format (column X always is Y > chars wide) for easier post-processing, I have to use the maximum width. > This would make output for the "architecture" co

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-01 Thread Martin Paul
Alexander Skwar wrote: With fixed width, post processing isn't easier (but also not harder, of course *G*). It just LOOKS nicer, but if you're after post processing, the looks aren't that important, I'd say. You're right. Right now the options to control pca's output are not very great, and my

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-02 Thread dpecka
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:22 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: > Ok, now that's not too complicated. For a start, I've added support for > a new specifier "%o" for --format to the current development release. > > Martin. > excellent martin :) .. i'd like to suggest yet another must-to-have feature ..

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-02 Thread dpecka
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:19 +0200, dpecka wrote: > the usage could be as follows: > > --asort %{key} :ascending sort by key > --dsort %{key} :descending sort by key > --esort "{$sort_expression},%{key}" :perl sort() expressions including > brackets {} and coma separated %{key} > > example: > >

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-02 Thread Martin Paul
dpecka wrote: i think, that for -l|--list operation would be very useful a possibility of sorting by --format %{keys} .. Ok, I've put it on the ToDo list. As I just noticed how ugly the code around --format (and creating the output in general) is, I will probably do the necessary changes at t

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-02 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi. 2010/6/2 dpecka : > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:22 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: >> Ok, now that's not too complicated. For a start, I've added support for >> a new specifier "%o" for --format to the current development release. >> >> Martin. >> > > excellent martin :) .. i'd like to suggest yet anot

Re: [pca] yet another sunsolve today's (31.5.2010) hang up?

2010-06-02 Thread dpecka
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:26 +0200, Martin Paul wrote: > OTOH this is a good example to explain my reluctancy to add every new > idea to pca. In the good old tradition of Unix, there are small > utilities which usually do one thing, but that very good. All these are > supposed to work hand in han