Patch Check Advanced. A new stable release of PCA has been published: 2. If you see download errors. PCA with - -wgetopt=. So it's. really 1. Bugs fixed in the 11.2.0.4 Patch Set. See Note:880782.1 for Support Status and Alerts affecting 11.2.0 releases. This note lists customer bugs fixed in the 11.2.0.4 Patch Set which are not already fixed in an earlier 11.2. Hi, I am new to Solaris and I have a very dumb question. Can any one please tell me how can I find out when the patches are installed in a.
I decided to make this script public, after. I've been using it for some time internally. It had 2. 08 lines at that. PCA users turned out to be my main motivation to maintain. PCA in the following years. So thanks to all of you who ever. I always liked Unix for its tradition. The option to download patches from Sun directly. Sun (and later Oracle) turned the simple process. FTP into a complicated procedure with. HTTP features. etc. There were moments when I seriously thought about giving. I also got in contact with Gerry Haskins and Don. O'Malley from Sun, which made it a lot easier to sort out problems and. Sun's patch creation and. Thanks to both of them for their help and patience! As PCA is not needed anymore on Solaris 1. Solaris 1. 0 who already. Personally. I also think that PCA is feature complete for quite some time now, and as. Oracle doesn't change their patch infrastructure anymore, new versions. PCA have been reduced to a minimum. While I still work with some. Solaris systems, we're moving away from Solaris here slowly, due to the. Oracle hardware and support. Of course I'll keep PCA working. This compensates for all the time I invested. PCA's analysis being correct or. Would I publish PCA 1. I could. go back to 2. I think so : -) If only for the amount of positive feedback. I got over all the years. Look at the bottom of. PCA Installation for a list. Please use the current development version. PCA, which contains a fix. A new stable version including the fix. A new version of PCA. MOS instead of Sun. Solve. Don O'Malley from Oracle describes the procedure and shows. There is also a development release of PCA available which can be used. With this version of PCA and your new MOS account, you should be able. MOS. ./pca - -sshost=getupdates. The patchdiag. xref file and the. PCA, will continue. There will be changes regarding URLs and the. PCA necessary. The new strategy, which is also documented in. Software Update Entitlement Policy for Solaris, enforces the. I will modify pca to do the check and. The URLs used by pca are not working anymore. Hopefully this will change soon. This subset has now been reduced to a much smaller. In a second phase of policy enforcement (to. Example: Patch 1. Later, 1. 23. 45. For pca to determine the set of. There are no plans. Sun to add this information to the patchdiag. You will have. to check all Sun Alerts or patch READMEs to come up with a list of all. I currently have no idea whether the majority of. So if you are affected by. Feel. free to comment either via the. Comments link in the above blog entry. Before that change, it was reading. In case of problems and for support queries please use. Therefore, pca can't parse the file correctly and. All addresses from the. For details on subscription etc. I still. don't understand completely what's going on, but there seem to be two. Sun. Solve checks for the User- Agent header in HTTP requests, and. Seem as if. it considers Wget/1. Using - -user- header=Wget/1. Sun. Solve doesn't ask for authentication, but if you. Basic Authentication data anyway, everything works. The. workaround for this problem is to compute basic authentication data. Sun. Solve with wget's - -header option. This seem to be due to a. Only send authentication credentials after we've. Using wget v. 1. 1. If anyone finds a. It seems. as if a (free) Sun Online Account is required to download patchdiag. The file hasn't been updated since 2. Post a comment and. Gerry Haskins, the Senior Engineering Manager in charge of. Software Release Engineering and Patch System Test at Sun. This can. be caused by the web server (apache) which kills the CGI script. Luckily, apache has a. Timeout option to be set in the httpd. For large patches, you might. Seems as if the issue has been fixed. Another. interesting change is that the patchdiag. Sun Online Account (SOA). I have already. modified the development release of pca to try accessing the xref. SOA data. I (and others). It seems as if a current version of the. Sun Online Account) from. I have created a script. HTML markup, saving the result in a patchdiag. According to the SLA on. Sun. Solve, it's illegal to redistribute any information from Sun. Solve. Update: Later this day once again old revisions of the. Sometimes Sun. Solve returns a small HTML file. It says that the requested. URL could not be retrieved, because an FTP authentication failure has. It seems as if sunsolve connects to an internal FTP server. The Sun. Solve staff knows about it. I reported it. to Sun. Update: The correct patchdiag. Oct/0. 9/0. 7. is now online. It's not possible. Sun. Online Account data. Strangely enough, it still works through a web. Sun must have implemented a procedure which disallows. I will probably modify pca to enforce this in the future. If you. haven't done so yet, go and get a free Sun Online Account. See. Installation for details. The askauth option has been modified to ask for SOA data. The same scheme is used for official and development. A new option has been added (update=TYPE) which allows. See. UPDATE PCA in the documentation. Use. /usr/perl. 5/bin/perldoc pca to view it. You can setup a cascade. The xrefdir. and patchdir are honored now in proxy mode, so you can keep the. Debugging. a proxy is simplified; when the debug option is set, debug output will. It requires patch 1. Patch 1. 22. 66. 0- 1. So. at the end 1. Until they fix it with a new. Update. Sun describes the problem in bug report. They recommend to install 1. The same. issue exists on the x. There's a similar issue for the x. Update: The problem has been. If a patch installs more than a few hundreds of files and some. If you use - -safe, please get the. Sorry if this has caused problems. When feeding path names with - p, the path names must not. When feeding path names with - i < file> , the path. ELF. In both cases, a maximum of. I have received reports. According to. this URI syntax has been deprecated and applications may choose to ignore it. Please use that. if you experience problems with the recent official version. A quick first check of the SPARC version shows that. Even more, there are pre- installed. The most notable of these is 1. This seems to be the. Sun. OS 5. 1. 0: sshd patch) and. Sun. OS 5. 1. 0: sendmail patch) being just two of. Quite handy when. Usage for more detail. The problem is known to Sun. Sun. Solve telling that they are working on it. If further changes are necessary, they always show up first in the. A pca user (thanks, again) pointed me at a workaround. If Sun Online Account (SOA) data is provided. Without SOA data, pca fakes a cookie (via. Service Level Agreement has been accepted, so it delivers the file. It returns HTTP internal server errors from time to time. And Sun did it again - there have been some. A first attempt to fix the issue. If the fix. doesn't work for you, please report back to me. You might be able to. In the next days, I will try to get out a new release. I'll reply to the messages. I received while I was gone. Messages will be. I'm back. The article. If you have it, and are willing to send it to me. In today's patchdiag. SAM- FS and QFS 4. I have added. a workaround in the. I had implemented a workaround in pca so these were. Sun in the last 1. By separating localurl into two options. One example is to point patchurl at. URL with a baseline. For downward compatibility, localurl is still. Well worth reading. Sun's patch access policy. Messages will be answered when I'm back. A. new and simpler algorithm for automatic download of the xref file is. The. patch README is only used to collect this information if no patchinfo. After patch installation, pca will. In. combination with the change in the URL for downloading the xref file. To stop it from doing that, you can use the nocheckxref. When the new file should be there, pca. Add to all this a bug/whatever in. N if it is used in combination with - O. If there is no local copy. If the local copy has been. This change. does away with all the sophisticated guessing and checking if a. The change is available in the. I have put a fix with the new link into the. Please download. and use this to make automatic downloads of the cross reference file. Thanks not to Sun for not announcing this. From now on, you will always need a Sun Online Account. README. Feed account data to pca via its. I have fixed the bug in the. Thanks to. Martin Wismer for reporting this! This can only be another. Sun, because in fact a new revision for all those patches. I have added a workaround to the. For example, m can be used for missing, mrs for. This applies to all patch groups. Patch groups override patch. R/S patches, even if. The operand specified when running pca will. Unlike the old options, these. Example: pca - -ignore 1. The old. options are still used, but deprecated. Patches set to be ignored will. Download of any. restricted patch fails or returns size 0 files, and interactive access. Patch Finder is either delayed infinitely or returns proxy errors. HTTP code 5. 00 or size 0 files. When trying to download the. Sun. Solve, a size- zero file is returned. See the contrib page for detail. It's only about a. The result is that pca output. I reported the problem to Sun, who hopefully will. Tuesday, about 7: 3. The patches are pre- installed. Solaris 1. 0 1. 1/0. If you install these patches, make sure to install 1. No other patches can be installed before the. The most important change is that access to. Solaris 8 and 9 patches will be restricted in the same way as access to. Solaris 1. 0 patches already is. The reason for the showrev crash seems to be. SUNWcsr/pkginfo file. The problem. has only been seen on x. You can get the fix by downloading. Unfortunately, no new comments can be posted anymore, but here's. I would have liked to post. You correctly noticed that . In fact it's more like that. Sun Update. Connection, especially its bugs, slowness, incorrectness and inability to run. Sun gear and stripped- down machines. A huge number of Solaris.
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