[install-discuss] /var/sadm/pkg missing??

[mary ding]

Mike and Ethan:

If you want to patchadd to the miniroot, you must use the patchadd -C 
option. You also need to set PKG_NONABI_SYMLINKS to true before you run 
patchadd -C.

Most of the patches that install  into /var should have a prepatch 
script to check whether the PKG_NONABI_SYMLINKS variable is set and give 
you warning if you do not set it.  I know that all our admin/install 
patches from our consolidation will check for this variable.

I had done this before in s10u1 when wanboot is broken and need to apply 
a patch to s10u1 to fix wanboot.  YOu can take a look at the attached 
procedure and see how to patch wanboot miniroot.


Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Ethan Quach <Ethan.Quach at sun.com> wrote:
>> So are we talking about /var/sadm on the running system getting lost or the
>> /var/sadm in your wanboot miniroot image mounted at /mnt ?  If the latter,
>> then there might be an explanation (or at least a known issue that explains
>> it).  In the miniroot image, ./var is symlinked to ./tmp/root/var and
>> there is a
>> known issue in the pkg tools where if the pkg delivers something into
>> ./var, it
>> breaks that symlink.
> 
> Taking a look at a broken wanboot image (not sure if this is the same
> one or not)
> 
> # find var
> var
> var/svc
> var/svc/manifest
> var/svc/manifest/system
> var/sadm
> var/sadm/pkg
> # find tmp/root/var | wc -l
>     3346
> # cat tmp/root/var/sadm/patch/.patchaddLock
> 3643
> 
> Note that the var symlink was broken and I was left with a small
> skeleton directory there.  The likely culprit was patchadd, not pkgrm.
> 
> Mike
> 

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