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

[Sriram Narayanan]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 08/21/11 07:00, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
>> 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 ?
>>
>> 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.
>
> Did you check what /usr/src is on your installed system?   At least here
> it's:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          11 Jul 22 17:47 /usr/src -> ./share/src/
>
> The package system is telling you someone already made a link there in
> another package, it can't reuse that path for a directory as well.
>

This was indeed the issue, Alan. Saurabh Vyas replied to my mail and
pointed this out to me.

For now, I've removed the delivery of /usr/src/rpm for the IPS
delivered rpm5 build, and everything is working fine now (I finished
testing a minute ago!) :)

I've forgotten my secret passwords for my opensolaris.org account, so
I couldn't sign up on ips-discuss and ask there.

Thanks for the help !

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>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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