Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On 8/10/07, Ethan Quach <Ethan.Quach at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> So are we talking about /var/sadm on the running system getting lost or the
>> /var/sadm in your wanboot miniroot image mounted at /mnt ?  If the latter,
>> then there might be an explanation (or at least a known issue that explains
>> it).  In the miniroot image, ./var is symlinked to ./tmp/root/var and
>> there is a
>> known issue in the pkg tools where if the pkg delivers something into
>> ./var, it
>> breaks that symlink.
>>     
>
> Taking a look at a broken wanboot image (not sure if this is the same
> one or not)
>
> # find var
> var
> var/svc
> var/svc/manifest
> var/svc/manifest/system
> var/sadm
> var/sadm/pkg
> # find tmp/root/var | wc -l
>     3346
> # cat tmp/root/var/sadm/patch/.patchaddLock
> 3643
>
> Note that the var symlink was broken and I was left with a small
> skeleton directory there.  

The skeleton directory is a result of whatever was delivered into ./var
from the pkg being added/removed, once the symlink was broken.

> The likely culprit was patchadd, not pkgrm.
>   

Did you run patchadd with -C

-ethan

> Mike
>
>   

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