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

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Gordon

You will need to add sfe as publisher for IPS to be happy.
After uninstall you can remove sfe again.

Have you deleted the /var/pkg/cache by any chance?

Greetings
Till

On 8/30/18 10:49 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:
> 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 <http://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
> <mailto: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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