Differential flars for install & Population of /var/sadm/install/contents

We are using differential flars to speed up installation, and have noticed that the /var/sadm/install/contents file is not being updated with the files coming from the packages in the differential flars on installation. Is this something that should be done automatically? Or is there something that we must do at flar create time or installation time to enable this? Thanks.
Kevin

IMHO the only thing that should modify the contents of /var/sadm/install/contents is a system utility. There is work currently underway to update the way that this file is modified.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2009-March/014675.html
alan

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