[SunHELP] creating patches

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Alan Rubin wrote:

| is there a way to recreate a patch file/archive on a machine that has had
| a patch installed on it so that the patch.tar.Z can be installed on
| another machine?  we are moving from one machine to another and we are
| trying to duplicate everything down to which patches have been installed
| because there is currently no provision for testing with different patch
| states.  this is simply a hardware change at the moment.  the patches that
| im looking for only seem to exist in their current revisions which are
| about a year or more too new.

If you're looking at making an exact copy of your first machine, why not
look at flar(1M) if you're using sol8.

/dale