[ILUG] Solaris question

[Maciej Bliziński]

2009/7/23 Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com>:
> Hmm..No wonder I can't find anything...
>
> gk02 at gk-student-02:~# pkgchk -L SUNWsmcmd
> WARNING: Package <SUNWsmcmd> is installed but empty
>
> Why would Sun put a package like this on their web site if it's empty?

Thou shalt not question Sun! ;-) No idea, perhaps it's a metapackage
with dependencies. Here's the surprise, pkgadd complains, but doesn't
resolve or follow the dependencies. It's up to you to install the
correct packages.

You can examine the package by looking at it in a 'directory' format.
If you have the *.pkg file, you can transform it with:

pkgtrans foo.pkg /tmp

It will create /tmp/foo which you can inspect.

Maciej