On 2006-03-19 15:33:57 +0000, Jeff Wieland <wieland@nospampurdue.edu> said:

> In article <dvi6aq$gu6$1@neuromancer.cse.psu.edu> groenvel@cse.psu.edu
> (John D Groenveld) writes:
>> In article <dvf5oh$k2t$1@mailhub227.itcs.purdue.edu>,
>> Jeff Wieland <wieland@nospampurdue.edu> wrote:
>>> But will pca continue to work with the coming changes at Sun w.r.t patch
>>> distribution?
>>
>> Should Sun yet again break the interface that pca and countless homegrown
>> tools use to fetch patchdiag.xref and the public and contract-only patches,
>> I would hope that the customer rabble would be waiting at Don Grantham
>> and company's doorstep with torches and pitch forks in hand.
>>
>> John
>> groenveld@acm.org
>
> I'm very impressed with pca. It works on every Solaris box I've tried
> it on so far. It even found a security patch that smpatch (and
> PatchPro Expert) missed. Plus it only needs perl (and wget) to run.
>
> As far as speed goes, it takes about 10 seconds to run a check for new
> patches on my 1.5 GHz SB1500. It takes about 45 seconds to run on my
> old 170 MHz Ultra 1, which is decently fast on that machine.

Glad to help Jeff, I know from experience that Sun have broken most
patching automation, pca seems to do it mostly right....

Steve