[Spacewalk-list] Solaris Package Support

[Andy Speagle]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 12:41 -0600, Andy Speagle wrote:
> I'm managing RHEL4, RHEL5 and Solaris 10 installs with my Spacewalk,
> and
> I'm running into a little trouble with Solaris packages for which I
> need
> a bit of assistance.  I'm not certain exactly how this works.
> 
> The solaris2mpm command... I've gotten the Solaris 10 i386 packages
> from
> BalaBit... and am attempting to use solaris2mpm to turn those into
> nice
> packages that I can upload to my Solaris channel(s).  What I'm seeing
> is... while I can install these packages directly on Solaris 10 x86
> machines... solaris2mpm will only spit out a SPARC version MPM...
> regardless of the "--select-arch" flag.  
> 
> I'm wondering... can someone tell me what in these Solaris packages is
> rhnpush/solaris2mpm looking for to determine and set the correct ARCH
> on
> the mpm...?  The Solaris host itself is able to discern that this
> package is of the correct ARCH... but something's being lost in the
> conversion to MPM.

Ok... so answering some of this myself... it's looking like the $ARCH
variable in the pkginfo file is set to "sparc" rather than "i386" ... 

So, I've reasoned out that I can change this by doing the following on
the Solaris i86pc host.

1) "Unpack" the Solaris package...
pkgtrans syslog-ng_2.1.4_i386.pkg /tmp/syslog-ng

2) Edit the pkginfo file.. change the arch from "sparc" to "i386"...
/tmp/syslog-ng/ZOSsyslng/pkginfo

3) Note the new file size for the "pkginfo" file...

4) Calculate a new "sum" for the "pkginfo" file...
sum /tmp/syslog-ng/ZOSsyslng/pkginfo

5) Update the "pkgmap" file with the new size and sum..
/tmp/syslog-ng/ZOSsyslng/pkgmap

6) "Repack" the Solaris package...
pkgtrans /software/syslog-ng syslog-ng_2.1.4_i386.pkg

Now I can convert this to MPM format via "solaris2mpm"... which pooches
out an i386 package.  Yay!

> If I can figure out what magic is missing... perhaps I can approach
> BalaBit package maintainers to fix these... if'n I can't do it myself 

I'm not sure if anyone else cares about this... but I thought I'd share
the experience.


-- 
Andy Speagle

"THE Student" - UCATS
Wichita State University
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