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Subject: -32- Why do 'inst' and 'showprods' say that a subsystem is an
"Unknown product entry"?
Date: 12 May 1996 00:00:01 EST
Paul "Mr. inst" Jackson of SGI <pj@sgi.com> explains two reasons:
- The "orphan" subsystem is a special subsystem for directories in
which more than one product keeps files. inst will remove these
directories as they become empty. Do NOT remove the subsystem
yourself. In fact, you can only see it due to a cosmetic bug in some
versions of inst.
- The product spec file in /var/inst which describes that subsystem is
damaged, due either to the usual sort of file-damaging problems or
to a bug in IRIX 5.3's inst. This also makes inst think that that
product is version 0, and thus incompatible with every other
subsystem. There is no patch for the bug. The workaround is to
reinstall the affected subsystems with all files restricted, so that
no files are actually installed but the product spec file is
updated, like so:
inst -f whatever -X/
Inst> set exclusions # Should be set to "Value /"
Inst> keep *
Inst> install upgrade
Inst> list i # Should see the unknown entries
Inst> go
Inst> quit
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