[oi-dev] An IPS publishing/permissions problem that I'm facing

[Sriram Narayanan]

Hi everyone:

I'm trying to publish a package to an IPS repo on my laptop, and I see
the following error when I try to install this package. What am I
doing wrong ?

sriram at ram-oi:~$ sudo pkg install rpm5
               Packages to install:     1
           Create boot environment:    No
DOWNLOAD                                  PKGS       FILES    XFER (MB)
Completed                                  1/1   3045/3045    40.3/40.3

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Install Phase                               152/3283Action install
failed for 'usr/src' (pkg://belenix/rpm5):
  ActionExecutionError: Requested operation failed for package
pkg://belenix/rpm5@5.3.11,5.11:20110821T132056Z:
Unable to create //usr/src; a parent directory /usr/src has been
replaced with a file or link.  Please restore the parent directory and
try again.
The Boot Environment rpmbuild failed to be updated. A snapshot was
taken before the failed attempt and is mounted here /tmp/tmp17SgO9.
Use 'beadm unmount rpmbuild-1' and then 'beadm activate rpmbuild-1' if
you wish to boot to this BE.

pkg: Requested operation failed for package
pkg://belenix/rpm5@5.3.11,5.11:20110821T132056Z:
Unable to create //usr/src; a parent directory /usr/src has been
replaced with a file or link.  Please restore the parent directory and
try again.



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