[oi-dev] How to kill old sfe package meta-data?

Gordon Ross gordon.w.ross at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 20:49:10 UTC 2018


People will probably want to see:

# pkg -R /mnt publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
userland                    origin   online F
file:///tank/ws/oi-userland/i386/repo/
openindiana.org (non-sticky) origin   online F
http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/


On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:46 PM Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a system that apparently had an sfe publisher at some point.
> Now attempts to update userland components run into problems:
>
> # pkg -R /mnt install system/virtualization/open-vm-tools
> system/virtualization/open-vm-tools-desktop
> Creating Plan (Evaluating mediators): -
> Errors were encountered while attempting to retrieve package or file data
> for
> the requested operation.
> Details follow:
>
> The requested operation requires that one or more package repositories are
> configured for publisher 'sfe'.
> Use 'pkg set-publisher' to add new package repositories or restore
> previously
> configured package repositories for publisher 'sfe'.
>
>
> I tried to get rid of the sfe stuff but can't figure out how.  Ideas?
>
> root at vm530gwr# pkg list |grep sfe
> driver/network/sfe                                0.5.11-2017.0.0.16842
>    i--
> sfe/library/gmp (sfe)                             5.0.5-0.151.1.5
>    i--
> sfe/library/mpc (sfe)                             1.0-0.151.1.5
>    i--
> sfe/library/mpfr (sfe)                            3.1.1-0.151.1.5
>    i--
>
> root at vm530gwr# pkg uninstall sfe/library/mpc sfe/library/gmp
> sfe/library/mpfr
> Creating Plan (Finding local manifests): |
> Errors were encountered while attempting to retrieve package or file data
> for
> the requested operation.
> Details follow:
>
> The requested operation requires that one or more package repositories are
> configured for publisher 'sfe'.
> Use 'pkg set-publisher' to add new package repositories or restore
> previously
> configured package repositories for publisher 'sfe'.
> #
>
>
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