From: Brad Morrison (brad.morrison@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 13:48:49 EST
SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire; e4800
I've just gotten the dreaded "One or more patch packages included in
<patch ID> are not installed on this system." The consensus I find via
google is that the package database (/var/sadm/install/contents) is
corrupt. I recall that this is just a flat file with filename, owner,
group, mode, and package reference for every system file.
I don't see a reference to this file in the /usr/sbin/patchadd script,
though. :-\
Q: Where/what is the "package database"?
Q: Is there a way to rebuild it without reinstalling Solaris?
Q: What is the format of /var/sadm/install/contents? (given the
format, it seems trivial to rebuild the text file, w/possible
exception of deriving the package references).
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