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Old 09-20-2006
Creating patches.....where to look for info?
Hi,

I'm looking for some resources (don't say "man" Smilie ) to get started on making Solaris patches. The reason being is we have files released to use. The current process is to copy them onto the machine and make a record somewhere.

I'd like to create a patch in the same way that packages are made so I keep track of what's on the machine at any time (showrev -p).

Any tips or areas to look?

Thanks.
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Old 09-20-2006
Do you mean patch in the generic sense, or the commandline program known as patch?
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Old 09-20-2006
I'm probably thinking of the patch utility in Solaris. I use the pkgmk utility to make my packages. Now I'm looking for something similar for patches.

The problem I'm having is that if I manually "patch" files on a box that were part of a package, then pkgchk flags the package as changed.
 
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