[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems upgrading OI

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Mon Feb 3 13:35:53 UTC 2014


What's the best doc for the version of pkg we're using??

I must understand it better.


On 2014-02-03 12:52, Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Hans J. Albertsson <
> hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>
>> I find I have lots of incorporations that have been "weeded out", like the
>> l10n-incorporation that only has about 20 % of its packages installed.
>>
>> Am I right in guessing that it REALLY is a bad idea to have an
>> incorporation installed and then remove some of the dependencies???
>>
> They aren't dependencies. They constrain versions.
>
> Incorporations don't specify what packages are installed,
> they merely state that *if* a package is installed, then it must
> be at this particular version(s), so you don't get a set of
> packages installed that aren't compatible with each other.
>
> So it's normal for incorporations to list many packages
> that you don't have installed.
>




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