James, Denise wrote on 03/26/07 02:32 PM:
> I am running Solaris 9.
Then you should not have had to use pkgtrans. You might ask the engineer
who recommended it if there is a known bug with the package tools on S9
(I've not heard of one, but I haven't used S9 in years;) and, if not,
ask him to report it....
('course you should make sure you're up to date with recommended patches
first!)
~Iain
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain MacDonnell [mailto:Iain.MacDonnell at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:29 PM
> To: James, Denise
> Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] pkgadd not working with firefox
> pkgdownload--must use pkgtrans
>
>
>
> James, Denise wrote on 03/26/07 11:26 AM:
>> I was unable to use the pkg version of firefox until the local Sun
>> engineer told me to use the command pkgtrans -n <filename> . (that is
> a
>> dot next to filename). Once I did this, I was able to pkgadd
>> MOZfirefox. Not sure if this is something I was supposed to know, but
>
>> I'd never heard of the pkgtrans command. I didn't see it in the
> install
>> instructions so I was wondering was there some other way around this?
>
> What Solaris release are you running? If it's Solaris Express build 58
> thru 60 or so, there was a known issue[1] with pkgadd of datasteam
> packages. The workaround was to use pkgtrans to convert them to "file
> system" format first. Generally, pkgadd should be able to process both
> formats of package, and you wouldn't have to use pkgtrans...
>
> ~Iain
>
> [1] http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6525537
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