[Spacewalk-list] Solaris Package Support
Andy Speagle
andy.speagle at wichita.edu
Mon Dec 14 18:44:56 UTC 2009
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 left out a bit of detail... the specific packages I'm trying to
convert to MPM for use with Spacewalk are the syslog-ng packages. Not
that it matters for the general question.
> 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.
>
> 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.
--
Andy Speagle
"THE Student" - UCATS
Wichita State University
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