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/var/spool/pkg

Postby huge » Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:29:48 GMT 

I fear I have done a foolish thing...

Sometime in the past, likely November 2003, I moved /var/spool/pkg from
the real /var to another disk and created a link from the real /var/spool/pkg
to the directory elsewhere (probably because /var was short of disk space).

In the intervening period, I seem to have lost the entire contents of the
directory, with the exception of SMClibgcc/  SMCperl/    SMCsamba/

I don't suppose (he said, pathetically hopefully) there's any way of recreating
this directory (or rather it's contents), is there? I have no backups
that old.

Also, rather oddly, pkginfo no longer produces any output at all, not even
about the packages that remain in /var/spool/pkg. Why's that?

I successfully installed the Solaris 8 Recommended patch
cluster a few weeks ago, and I thought that wouldn't work without a
valid /var/spool/pkg?

patchadd -p no longer works;

anubis{root}40: patchadd -p

/usr/sbin/patchadd[6]: /var/sadm/pkg:  not found
grep: can't open */pkginfo
grep: can't open */pkginfo
/usr/sbin/patchadd[15]: /var/sadm/pkg:  not found
No patches installed

I've done this on two boxes, too. (One an Ultra-2, the other an Ultra-10,
both with Sol 8). I suspect I did something dumb in order to get the
patch kit to install.

Help!

-- 
            "Other people are not your property."
        [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk]
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Re: /var/spool/pkg

Postby Thomas Maier-Komor » Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:58:26 GMT 



that does not sound odd at all, because it is the _spool_ directory. The
metadata of the packages is stored under /var/sadm/pkg not
/var/spool/pkg.


because pkginfo gets its info from /var/sadm/pkg/* and
/var/sadm/install/contents AFAIK.


maybe /var/sadm/pkg was still available back then....

what about showrev -p?


I guess you have to try to restore your system from a backup or
reinstall it.

Tom
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