UPDATE: Roll Your Own Package Patches
2007-12-25 2:01:00
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> 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.
I have already received a bunch of responses with pointer on how to make
Solaris packages. Thank you for your prompt replies, BUT...
We _already have made_ home-grown Solaris packages and installed them.
What we want to do is use patchadd(1M) to add the fixed files to the
packages rather than deinstalling and reinstalling.
To repeat, we want to build PATCHES that work with patchadd(1M) (although
building packages is still subset of making patches, we are already very
adept at that).
FWIW, what we ended up doing was reapplying the packge with the same name
and just containing updated files (setting MAXINST > 1). But you end up
with something like,
# pkginfo | fgrep OURsndm
OURsndm Sendmail 8.12.9
OURsndm.2 Sendmail 8.12.9-patch
Which is OK for now, but we would much rather use patchadd(1M).
Actually, the issue is that the other administrators are familiar and
comfortable with patchadd(1M), and trying to get them to do the above
or other kinds of tricks with the pkg* tools makes them cranky, makes
them bother me with lots of questions, and I get blamed if _anything_
breaks on the system for the next few weeks. I want to give them a
patchadd(1M) patch.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark at globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
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