Has anyone had success recreating a package from an existing installation? For instance - there is a package installed on a host with a particular version (and patches, potentially) that we don't have in our environment that no-one has any idea where the original media resides ... we are tasked with making some modifications to the config for it however we don't have ready access to root accounts in order to perform the work ...
In order to get around the access issue I would like to bundle up the installed package somehow and ship it back to our hosts for testing purposes ... ideally I'd like to recreate the installation package, or a close facsimile as I can, as this may be the only manner in which to create a SYS-V style patch which would work against the original package on the host I don't have admin access to ... :) In the NetBSD/pkgsrc world there are utilities to allow recreating a package archive from the files on the system and information residing in the package management database and I have the distinct feeling that the Solaris SVSV-style patch tools do something like this as part of their normal operation in any case ... Has anyone done something similar to this before? I've got some ideas about how it could be done from information in various places on the host, but if there were an 'official' tool that already did it that would be preferable ... Regards, Malcolm -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally mjch at mjch.net left blank
