Mark Vaughan wrote:
well as usual I have to answer my own posts on this site! It seems that there is no way to recover this file, and if it gets deleted or corrupted then thats your system screwed as regard installing new packages. I find this a bit crazy that one file can mess up your system!
Yes; this file is currently critical. One might be able to generate it from /var/sadm/pkg/*/save/pspool/*/pkgmap files if they exist. If you've patched the system this is harder yet. In the future, the contents file may become a view provided by a daemon; the daemon will still rely on some source of information regarding what is installed on the machine. If that source of information gets corrupted, problems will no doubt ensue there as well. There are many files in Solaris which, if corrupted, will cause problems, unfortunately. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
