[afnog] paches for solaris

[Serge Biramah]

Hello david,

Instead of ./installpatch, Have you tried "patchadd <path>/112542-01" ? e.g 
"patchadd  /tmp/112542-01" ( you can use some options of patchadd binary : 
"man patchadd" to find it )

patchadd is installed on solaris 9.0 by default ?

Serge

At 14:18 22/03/2005, David Chima wrote:
>Hello Afnog,
>I have a sun spark server that I want to install ciscosecure 2.3(6) 
>running solaris 9.0. When I tried the pkgadd
>command to install my ciscosecure, The system told me to download the 
>patches first before I could continue.
>
>I went to http://sunsolve.sun.com to download the patches. After doing 
>that I have tried to install the patches
>starting with patch 112542-01 but I get the following error
>==============================================================================
>bash-2.05# ./installpatch .
>
>WARNING: /usr/sbin/patchadd is being used to install this patch.
>Installpatch will be removed from Solaris patches in
>the next release of Solaris.
>
>New versions of /usr/sbin/patchadd and /usr/sbin/patchrm exist
>that provide essential bug fixes and a speed enhancement.
>Please install patch 106125 for significant patch
>installation improvements.
>
>
>Checking installed patches...
>One or more patch packages included in
>106255-01 are not installed on this system.
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>bash-2.05# cd ..
>==============================================================================
>
>And when I try to install patch 106125 I get
>==============================================================================
>bash-2.05# ./installpatch .
>
>WARNING: /usr/sbin/patchadd is being used to install this patch.
>
>
>Checking installed patches...
>ERROR: This patch requires patch 112542-01
>which has not been applied to the system.
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>==============================================================================
>
>and patch installing patch 106255-01 I get
>==============================================================================
>bash-2.05# ./installpatch .
>
>WARNING: /usr/sbin/patchadd is being used to install this patch.
>Installpatch will be removed from Solaris patches in
>the next release of Solaris.
>
>New versions of /usr/sbin/patchadd and /usr/sbin/patchrm exist
>that provide essential bug fixes and a speed enhancement.
>Please install patch 106125 for significant patch
>installation improvements.
>
>
>Checking installed patches...
>One or more patch packages included in
>106255-01 are not installed on this system.
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>===========================================================================
>
>It looks like a chicken-egg problem here. I need help. I think I am 
>lacking something here. Is there anyone to
>help.
>
>Regards
>
>David
>
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