swinstall QPK1100 depot empty?

[doug mielke]

When I try to use swinstall or swcopy on the patch bundle QPK1100 from local CD (support plus, march '03) I get 'the depot exists but is empty.' If I try a specific patch/dir, I get 'no depot sw at 'path'' error.
I can see the files. I mounted the CD with no options.

I know I've had this problem before, but can not remember what to do about it, and tried some things I could find in past posts.
(restarted swagentd, recreated INDEX, tried different media, checked name resolution)

What am I missing? (again)

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Doug,

Did you try

swreg -l depot /cdrom/QPK1100 ?

Then specify /crom/QPK1100 as the depot instead of /cdrom alone.


-Sri

[doug mielke]

I tried swreg on both /cdrom and /cdrom/QPK1000but it didn't change the condition at all.

I've tried multiple mount points as well.

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

swreg -l depot @ /cdrom

swlist -l depot | grep -i cdrom

then try doing

swlist -l bundle -s /cdrom

This should be giving you desired results.

Thanks
Prashant

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

That's interesting. I could be able to successfully access QPK depot on the same March 2003 CD. All I did was to mount the cd at /cdrom, then do 'swreg -l depot /cdrom/QPK1100', invoke 'swinstall' interactive session and point it to the path. I would suggest the following

Try accessing a different depot (not from the CD) just to make sure that your 'swagentd' is not a problem. If it is a problem, then 'kill' swagentd instead of 'restarting' and then start it using 'swagentd -r' command.

-Sri

[doug mielke]

more mess. I'm tryng on a different server. (N Class, 11.00)

I copied the QPK1100 dir from CD to /var/depot/QPK1100

I tried reg a depot with

swreg -l depot /var/depot/QPK1100


And I get the same 'depot is empty' error from swinstall or
swlist -l bundle -s /var/depot/QPK1100
I killed and restarted swagentd. No Help.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Doug,

What if you try to install some other depot (not the ones on the CD)?. Do you get the same 'depot exists..' message?. Install some non-critical software or create an empty depot with few lines in psf file and then, package it and then try.

-Sri

[doug mielke]

Thanks for all the help. It looks like there is some issue with my 2 copies of the march 2003 cd's.

I tried another depot, and it worked. So I went to an older (2001) release of the bundle, and it works.

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

Still if you like to, you may try pfs_mount option. Look at man mount_cdfs. Just a thought as I was going tthrough some link and most of the suggestions were founf like this..

Thanks
Prashant