[OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

[Sašo Kiselkov]

I had to work around this by cloning some of my older zones and
reconfiguring them, otherwise I was just getting a bunch of errors in
the new zone (even after the image-create I mentioned before).

Cheers,
--
Saso

On 07/05/2012 12:11 PM, Open Indiana wrote:
> Same at my side.
> 
> Pkg search doesn't find anything within a zone I created today
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sašo Kiselkov [mailto:skiselkov.ml at gmail.com]
> Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 23:38
> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to
> oi_151a5
> 
> On 07/04/2012 11:09 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I noticed that there's been an update published to openindiana.org
>> (oi_151a5) - great stuff, but the new version of pkg(1) in it broke
>> zone creation from oi_151a4 hosts. In short, here's the problem:
>>
>>  * Global zone: oi_151a4
>>  * zoneadm -z newzone install   <-- this fetches and installs pkg(1)
>>                                     from openindiana.org for oi_151a5
>>  * zlogin newzone
>>  * (in-newzone)# pkg publisher
>>    pkg: No image found.
>>
>> The IPS database format has probably changed in such a way that the
>> new
>> pkg(1) doesn't recognize the old database. I've tested this numerous
>> times with the following pkg(1) versions and I can consistently
>> reproduce this:
>>
>> (global-zone)# pkg version
>> 5d2771134f21+
>>
>> (non-global-zone)# pkg version
>> 4d886e93dafc
>>
>> A way to work around this is to re-generate the package database in
>> the non-global zone as follows:
>> # pkg image-create -f --zone --full -p http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/ /
>> # pkg install entire     # to ensure everything's properly installed
>>
>> When installing the non-global zone from an oi_151a5 global zone, this
>> doesn't occur (just tested on a second machine - yep, if global is
>> oi_151a5, all is good, otherwise, the non-global zone's pkg is broken).
>> Sure I'm not the only one who's seeing this, right?
> 
> P.S. minor correction: my proposed fix doesn't actually work, so at present,
> zones are broken on openindiana oi_151a4 (at least for me).
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso
> 
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