On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 12:46 -0800, Alexander wrote:
> > Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > > $ pfexec pkg set-publisher -O
> >  http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ contrib
> >  $ pfexec pkg install tcpdump
> >    
> > will show up in the dev repo in build 129.
> What did I miss? Updated from 126 to 129 build, installed SUNWtcpdump. 
> Now tcpdump complains that bpf is missing:
> $ pfexec tcpdump  -i e1000g0
> tcpdump: (cannot open device) /dev/bpf: No such file or directory
> 
> It is really missing, but why?

Because libpcap now uses BPF instead of libdlpi, and the libpcap package
is missing a dependency on the BPF package.  This is the following bug:

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=13279

The workaround is to install SUNWpacket.

-Seb


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