Confused by pkgadd error

[alaincl]

hi all

As discussed in the thread :
thread60-1233725
I have the problem with pkgadd, i have some old sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 and I need to install some new package, unfortunatly, pkgadd does not work (as described in the thread below;
i Installed the patches(or earlier):
112396-02 SunOS 5.8: /usr/bin/fgrep patch
111111-04 SunOS 5.8: /usr/bin/nawk patch
110662-20 SunOS 5.8: ksh patch
110380-06 SunOS 5.8: ufssnapshots support, libadm patch
110934-24 SunOS 5.8: package utilities patch
108987-17 SunOS 5.8: Patch for patchadd and patchrm
and it still does not work

before the patch:
pkgadd -s /tmp/essai_inst_clear -d . CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to complete package transfer
- no packages were selected from </tmp>

after the patch:
pkgadd -d . CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </tmp>

# pkgadd . CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>

I am not an unix expert
can somebody help me to install (if possible) the minimum patches
Regards

 

[GunnarD]

Remove the .

Try: pkgadd -s /tmp/essai_inst_clear -d . CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg

 

[alaincl]

thanks for your answer GunnarD
I tried like you said without success

pkgadd -s /tmp/essai_inst_clear -d . CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to complete package transfer
- no packages were selected from </tmp>

pkgadd CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>

pkgadd /tmp CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>

pkgadd -d /tmp CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </tmp>


ls
CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg ps_data
CClearcase-7.0.1.1-20080221.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg psb_back_socket
essai_inst_clear psb_front_socket
get_codetech.tmp rsync_Lib_central.log


pwd
/tmp

Alain

 

[spamly]

I think you're supposed to be using the patchadd command.

 

[alaincl]

I tried another thing

I put the package in the /var/spool/pkg directory
and then i have a better answer

cd /var/spool/pkg
ln -s /tmp/CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
bclt61# pwd
/var/spool/pkg
ls
CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd -s /tmp/essai_inst_clear CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to complete package transfer
- no packages were selected from </var/spool/pkg>
pkgadd -s /tmp/essai_inst_clear -d CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg

The following packages are available:
1 CClearcase clearcase
(sparc) 6.00.52-20080211.1

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
Transferring <CClearcase> package instance

can somebody explain that?
thanks

 

[alaincl]

Hi Spamly

I used the patchadd to add the patches but not for the packages

 

[GunnarD]

You should use:

pkgadd -d CClearcase-6.00.52-20080211.1-SunOS5.8-sparc.pkg