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

[Gordon Ross]

Yeah, thought to try that, but can't find an origin URI that works for this.


On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 5:03 PM Till Wegmüller <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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