Thanks to Danny Johnson - There was a "core" file in the /var/sadm/pkg
tree which causes showrev -p to fail.
Now I'll need to figure out at what stage in the patching process the
core file appeared and whether or not it affected the installation of
the recommended patches.
G++
Danny Johnson wrote:
>
> we had problems something like this (don't remember exactly)
> caused by a normal file (instead of a directory) appearing in
> /var/sadm/pkg or /var/sadm/patch
>
> > From sun-managers-relay@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu Mon Jan 18 10:36:49 1999
> > From: Gavin Hemphill <hemphill@drea.dnd.ca>
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> > To: sun-managers <sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu>
> > Subject: Installation of Sunsolve V4.0.1 recommended patches seems to break
> > showrev -p
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > Hi:
> > I just installed the recommended patch cluster (from the V4.0.1
> > sunsolve cd) on an Ultra 1 running 2.5.1 and find that showrev -p now
> > simply returns "showrev: get_env_var(core, SUNW_PATCHID)". Has anyone
> > seen this behavior, and if so which patch is it that's breaking showrev?
> > The installation of the patches proceeded normally so I'm not sure
> > what's going on.
> > Will summarize.
> > Gavin Hemphill
> >
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