SUMMARY: disksuite patch-install does not work

From: Sebastian Benoit (benoit@mathematik.uni-marburg.de)
Date: Tue Jul 28 1998 - 04:28:03 CDT


Fast answer, thanks to Casper Dik.

> > my question
> Answer

> >I have a problem installing the disksuite patch 104172-09:
> >patchadd does not work (see errors below).
> >
> >I have installed the patch successfully with fastpatch,
> >however that was just on a trial system.
> >I used 'fastpatch.pl -p ./ 104172-09' to install the patch.
> >
> >- is it safe to install the patch on our home directory server
> > using fastpatch ?
> > (the homedirs are on a stripe-set)
>
> Maybe. may be not. fastpatch doesnt' do inter package checks.
>
> >- what is causing the errors below ?
>
> Bad pkgmap files in the patch.
>
> Several of the pathnames have differetn permissions; 775 in one pkgmap
> and 755 in the other.
>
> You could edit the pkgmap files by hand (make teh entries for these files
> identical) and then fix the checksum. After that, the patch should
> apply/
>
> Casper

I'll try it out.

Benno

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