[SunHELP] Patch will not install

[Ben Ricker]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 16:30, Dale Ghent wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Ben Ricker wrote:
> 
> > This looks like it has a dependency. If it does, do I jusst keep 
> > running
> > it, installing pkgs as they fail or is there an actual dependency
> > listing? There is none at the patches  home page:
> 
> as root, do a recursive chown of the patch to nobody:nobody and then 
> attempt to run patchadd again.

Tried that. Got the same error. Thanks for the suggestion.

However, I cannot for th elife of me get the dependent pkg installed.
Here is what I do:

>From the Solaris 8 cd /cdrom/sol_8_401_sparc/s0/Solaris_8/Product. There
is the pkg that patchadd says fails when doing checkinstall. I type:

tar -cf ~/SUNWcarx.tar ./SUNWcarx.u

and then gzip the file. I ftp it to the server I need to install it on
and gunzip and untar the folder. I type: 'pkgadd -d SUNWcarx.u'. Here is
the output:

pkgadd -d SUNWcarx.u
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </export/home/adm/SUNWcarx.u>

Why? The pkg should install. I cannot mount the CD in that machine since
it is in another state. This is really getting my goat.....

Don't even let ne BEGIN to tell you the problem I had mounting the CD
with vold...

Ben Ricker 

> 
> user nobody has to be able to read the patch files, and the failure of 
> checkinstall to be executed by patchadd is indicative of user nobody 
> not having read access to the patch files.
> 
> /dale
> 
> 
> /ek
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