[OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE repo 'git' package triggers 'This version is excluded by installed incorporation"

[Alex Viskovatoff]

Hi Jason,

It's been decided that when an oi-sfe package provides a newer version
of a package that OI core provides, the oi-sfe package name will be
prefixed with sfe.openindiana.org and will install in /usr/gnu.

So, you should be able to install SFE git by doing

pkg install sfe.openindiana.org/developer/versioning/git

and run it by typing

/usr/gnu/bin/git

Your desire for nagios-nrpe and nagios-plugin has been noted.

Alex

On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 00:55 -0600, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Thank you very much. That'll help a lot. We're deploying with Chef so a custom package is definitely possible. 
> 
> It would be really nice to see the nagios-nrpe and nagios-plugin packages that were in the OpenSolaris repo make it over to OpenIndiana. 
> 
> -J
> 

> On Aug 5, 2011, at 20:56, Alex Viskovatoff <viskovatoff at imap.cc> wrote:
> 
> > You have just run into the nasty side of IPS.
> > 
> > I can see that this is going to be a problem. inkscape also can't be
> > installed at present because, pkg refuses to install the newer version
> > of library/gc that is at oi-sfe.
> > 
> > I'll discuss what to do about this with the OI developers. The simplest
> > solution would be for them to remove peripheral packages like git from
> > the software consolidations.
> > 
> > If they don't do that, another solution would be to rename the git
> > provided by oi-sfe, but that would go against the way the IPS developers
> > recommend IPS patches to be named. According to them, if a publisher
> > delivers the same package that the system does, it should use the same
> > name for the package as the system: the only difference should be the
> > publisher name.
> > 
> > Hopefully this problem will go away when OI starts building reasonably
> > fresh versions of packages in oi-build, as appears to be happening with
> > cmake, for example. Then oi-sfe would not have to provide newer versions
> > of packages that OI itself ships.
> > 
> > In the meantime, if you really need the newer version of git that's at
> > oi-sfe, you can build it yourself from the SFE spec. (I wish I knew why
> > pkg(1) will let you install a new version of git you built yourself but
> > not one that you get from another repository.) Instructions for setting
> > up an SFE build environment can be found here:
> > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pkgbuild/index.php?title=Pkgbuild_on_OpenSolaris
> > 
> > I'm sorry I can't be more helpful.
> > 
> > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 17:32 -0600, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> >> What would be the appropriate way to clear the "This version is
> >> excluded by installed incorporation" error that comes up when trying
> >> to install Git 1.7 from the SFE repo?
> >> 
> >> -J
> >> 
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