Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Installing Solaris patches on top of a tarball.

There are times when you have a copy of some Solaris packages installed, but the pkg database is not available. This can happen when you relocate the installation directory manually, or if you’ve placed the files on a non-Solaris NFS server, or if you backed up your /opt directory, and restored it aftera complete OS [...]