[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0003831]: Saving of admin file still doesn't work correctly

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=3831 
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Reported By:                dam
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   3831
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2009-08-07 12:48 CEST
Last Modified:              2009-08-07 15:53 CEST
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Summary:                    Saving of admin file still doesn't work correctly
Description: 
On an update with
  pkgutil -U -u -y
I got after some package updates the error

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Installation of <CSWpmipcshrlite> was successful.
Removing old version of CSWpmiozlib
pkgrm: ERROR: unable to open admin file </var/opt/csw/pkgutil/admin.run>:
No such file or directory

Removal of <CSWpmiozlib> failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.
Installing CSWpmiozlib-1.10,REV=2009.08.06
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to open admin file </var/opt/csw/pkgutil/admin.run>:
No such file or directory
Removing old version of CSWpmgd

The error was with this version:

root at build9s :/root > pkginfo -x CSWpkgutil
CSWpkgutil      pkgutil - Installs Solaris packages easily
                (sparc) 1.6.1,REV=2009.06.05


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 (0006524) dam (reporter) - 2009-08-07 15:53
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=3831#c6524 
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You may want to look at pca, which is also written in Perl and does
fine-grained locking. For now copying admin to admin.$$ would be sufficient
for this problem, but you need to also fix multiple concurrent downloads of
the same file (which is handled in pca).