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01-12-2008, 05:29 AM
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 Re: pkgadd breaking patches? In article <bjkpcc$1tlo$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes: > Dmitry Sazonov <dmitry@quite.net> writes in comp.sys.sun.admin: > |Then the users came and asked to install this and that. So, naturally I > |install those packages from the installation tree (2/02 unpatched > |packages). > |One package SUNWbtool required SUNWcsl. > > Not surprising, SUNWcsl is the core system libraries that Solaris > requires to run just about any program. > > |That was the last package I was able to install. > > It should have already been installed, so if you re-pkgadded it you > downgraded it and made it mismatch the rest of your system. > > You might be able to boot from CD and recover, but reinstalling is > probably the safest and simplest way out of the hole you have dug. > Yes SUNWcsl is always present. SUNWbtool should have installed right away. Instead of re-installing everything, you can try a restore from tape backup on these files: nawk '/^[^=]*SUNWcsl$/{print $1}' /var/sadm/install/contents and live with the too old patch level information in the package database. The question remains: pkgadd should say: "warning: remove these patches first: ... ... ...". -- Michael Tosch / Master IS/IT Support Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH Tel: +49 2407 575 313      |
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01-12-2008, 05:29 AM
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| Re: pkgadd breaking patches? Michael Tosch wrote: > In article <bjkpcc$1tlo$1@agate.berkeley.edu>, Alan Coopersmith > <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes: >> Dmitry Sazonov <dmitry@quite.net> writes in comp.sys.sun.admin: >> |Then the users came and asked to install this and that. So, naturally I >> |install those packages from the installation tree (2/02 unpatched >> |packages). >> |One package SUNWbtool required SUNWcsl. >> >> Not surprising, SUNWcsl is the core system libraries that Solaris >> requires to run just about any program. >> >> |That was the last package I was able to install. >> >> It should have already been installed, so if you re-pkgadded it you >> downgraded it and made it mismatch the rest of your system. >> >> You might be able to boot from CD and recover, but reinstalling is >> probably the safest and simplest way out of the hole you have dug. >> > > Yes SUNWcsl is always present. SUNWbtool should have installed > right away. > > Instead of re-installing everything, you can try a restore from > tape backup on these files: > > nawk '/^[^=]*SUNWcsl$/{print $1}' /var/sadm/install/contents I restored only two libraries for now /usr/lib/libadm.so.1 and /usr/lib/libbsm.so.1 > > and live with the too old patch level information in the package > database. pkgchk complains. I think I would need to forcefully reapply some (which?) patches. > > The question remains: pkgadd should say: > "warning: remove these patches first: ... ... ...". Maybe it did. Unfortunatelly I'm used to not read it's output and hit y in advance... > |
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