SUMMARY: problem installing Solaris 2.5 recommended patch cluster

From: Todd Pfaff (todd@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Wed Sep 11 1996 - 14:28:42 CDT


I asked:

] I'm trying to install the Solaris 2.5 recommended patch cluster but it's
] failing. The installation log is below. What is the checkinstall script
] and why might it be failing? I have root, usr and var combined as
] one filesystem and there is 200mb of free space on this filesystem so I
] shouldn't be running out of space.
]
]
] *** Install Solaris 2.5 Recommended begins Tue Sep 10 16:14:45 EDT 1996
] ***
] *** PATCHDIR = /1/patches/2.5_Recommended ***
]
] Installing 103667-01...
] Generating list of files to be patched...
] Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (exhaustive method) ...
] Installing patch packages...
] pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
] The installation of patch 103667-01 was interrupted.
] Installpatch needs to be re-invoked to ensure proper installation of the
] patch.
]
] Backoutpatch is terminating.

and the answer was that the unpacked patch directory and files had to be
world-readable since part of the install runs as user sys.

The simplest solution is to untar the files into /tmp and use the tar -p
option to preserve file modes.

Thanks for replies from:

Celeste Stokely <celeste@celestial.stokely.com>
Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.Com
Danny Johnson 0172547 <djohnson@nbserv2.dseg.ti.com>
"Richard C. Mills" <rmills@atl1.america.net>
Ric Anderson <ric@rtd.com>
Jason Keltz <cs911089@ariel.cs.yorku.ca>
dsf@Interpath.com
Tony Cormier <tony@Manic5.Hydro.Qc.CA>
Simon-Bernard Drolet <simdro@sisca.qc.ca>
John Benjamins <johnb@Soliton.COM>

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