Roll Your Own Package Patches

2007-12-25 2:01:00

The two recent security updates for OpenSSH and Sendmail forced us to
build and install updated versions of this software. It would be really,
really nice to be able to use Solaris's patchadd(1M) to patch our home-
rolled packages (these are "real" packages added with pkgadd(1M), just
pulled together with pkgproto(1), pkgmk(1), pkginfo(4), etc.).

My Googling has not gotten me anywhere on how to make your own Solaris
package patches. Anyone have some pointers to offer on documentation or
has figured out how to do this? Patchadd(1M) is a binary executable and
reading the various scripts in the patch packages just isn't getting
me anywhere either.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark at globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387

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