Pkginfo of /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcsr missing

Dear All,
we have experienced following problem. On Sun Enterprise 450 machine running Solaris 8 we have installed latest Recommened patch cluster. After that we have found out that "pkginfo" file is missing inside the /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWcsr. Unfortunately this system is not backed-up at all. Is there any way how to renew this file? (roll back some patch, copy some template?). Thank you for your responses.

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