solaris-patch
- Author
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Martin Carpenter
- Copyright
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Copyright © Martin Carpenter 2011
About
The solaris-patch gem helps with the manipulation of SunOS and Solaris patches.
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Read (or write!) patchdiag.xref files.
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Find latest version of a patch.
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Find latest non-superseded version of a patch.
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Download patchdiag.xref, patches, readmes from Oracle.
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Examples
Download a patch
require 'solaris/patch'
Solaris::Patch.download_patch!('123456-78',
:to_file => '/tmp/123456-78.zip')
Alternatively:
patch = Solaris::Patch.new('123456-78')
patch.download_patch!(:to_dir => '/tmp')
Download a readme
require 'solaris/patch'
Solaris::Patch.download_readme!('123456-78',
:to_file => '/tmp/123456-78.txt')
Get the latest version of a patch
require 'solaris/patch'
Solaris::Patchdiag.open('/tmp/patchdiag.xref').latest('123456-01')
=> "123456|12|..."
Get the latest non-obsolete version of a possibly obsoleted patch
require 'solaris/patch'
Solaris::Patchdiag.open('/tmp/patchdiag.xref').successor('123456-01')
=> "234567|12|..."
Interrogate patchdiag.xref
require 'solaris/patch'
# slurp in patchdiag.xref
patchdiag = Solaris::Patchdiag.new('/tmp/patchdiag.xref')
# all sparc patches
patchdiag.select { |p| p.archs.include? 'sparc' }.inspect
=> ["123456-78", ...]
# latest line added to patchdiag.xref
most_recent = patchdiag.sort_by(&:date).last
most_recent
=> "123456|78|..."
# most recent patch number
most_recent.patch
=> "123456-78"
# most recent patch's README if it was recommended
most_recent.download_readme! if most_recent.recommended?
=> "Patch-ID# 123456-78..."
Known issues
Dates in patchdiag.xref are Mon/dd/yy format. This gem will break in 2050 since it assumes year 50 and above is in the 20th century.