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

[Jason J. W. Williams]

Hi Alex, 

Thank you very much!

-J

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On Aug 7, 2011, at 11:33, Alex Viskovatoff <viskovatoff at imap.cc> wrote:

> 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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