Package installation error during zone installation

Question

Hi All
I am getting a lot of errors from package installations during zone installation
Installation of these packages generated errors: <SUNWcsu SUNWckr SUNWgnome-base-libs SUNWgnome-audio SUNWtltk SUNWzoner SUNWzfskr SUNWzfsr SUNWzfsu SUNWzoneu SUNWtoo SUNWssad SUNWusb SUNWtavor SUNWudapltu SUNWopenssl-libraries SUNWwbsup SUNWPython SUNWbip SUNWxge SUNWxcu4 SUNWxcu6 SUNWcry SUNWntp4u SUNWqlc SUNWqlcu SUNWgnome-im-client SUNWgnome-img-editor SUNWsndmr SUNWsndmu SUNWsshcu SUNWsshdu SUNWsshu SUNWgnome-text-editor>
When I look into /var/sadm/system/logs/install_log in the zone, I am seeing the erros are relate to file corruption:
*** package <SUNWckr> failed to install - interrupted:
pkgadd: ERROR: packaging file </var/sadm/pkg/SUNWckr/save/pspool/SUNWckr/pkginfo
is corruptfile size <17259> expected <17199> actual
*** package <SUNWsshcu> failed to install - interrupted:
pkgadd: ERROR: packaging file </var/sadm/pkg/SUNWsshcu/save/pspool/SUNWsshcu/pkg
info> is corrupt
file size <6235> expected <7087> actual
as an example, the pkginfo file referred to above has size 17199 and 7087 in the global zone so why is it thinking it should be 17259 and 6235? Could this be due to the patching done before the zone creation?
thanks

Answer 1

I just realized what is causing this but no sure what is the best way to get around this:
we have another home grown package the overwrite the problematic files reported thay lay on top of the sun packages and zone installation does not like that. The original file size and check sum is checked against what was installed in the global zone and hence the warning messages.
I would have thought it should pick the most updated ones especially it was overwritten by another package (and therefore it should have the updated information in the package database)?