[oi-dev] Issue building the illumos component on OpenIndiana

[Kirtikar Kashyap]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I was just curious as to what is the difference
between the /dev version that we were originally using and the hipster
version suggested by you guys.

Thanks,
Kirtikar

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/15/15 11:09 PM, Kirtikar Kashyap wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> Thanks for your prompt response.
>
> We installed the hipster version ( OI-hipster-gui-20151003 ).
>
> However when we try to run the command "sudo pkg install build-essential",
> it fails with the error:
>
> $ *sudo pkg install build-essential*
> Creating Plan (Solver setup): \
> pkg install: No matching version of metapackages/build-essential can be
> installed:
>   Reject:  pkg://
> openindiana.org/metapackages/build-essential at 1.0-2015.0.1.1:20150727T111900Z
>   Reason:  No version matching 'require' dependency archiver/cabextract
> can be installed
>     ----------------------------------------
>     Reject:  pkg://
> openindiana.org/archiver/cabextract at 1.4-2014.0.1.0:20151027T055544Z
>     Reason:  This version is excluded by installed incorporation
> entire at 0.5.11-2015.0.2.0
>
> Maybe you need to update OI hipster with pkg update -v first?
> Current 'entire' is versioned 2015.0.2.1 so probably you need to pkg
> update -v first.
>
> OI hipster ISOs are not releases per se, where packages are frozen utill
> next release or are provided with updates in separate publisher as it would
> be for supported release,
> hipster is rolling release model used for development and testing and one
> can update to newest bits before installing newest packages from publisher.
>
> Also there are development zones where one would actually install
> development packages in it's own ZFS dataset.
> That way one can have multiple independent build environments and clone
> and reinstall zones instead of reinstalling main machine and use networking
> virtualization between zones and outside world for infrastructure
> deployment simulations etc.
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+in+zones
>
>
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