[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dependency problem on pkg:/service/network/dns/bind

[Jan Owoc]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Chris Ridd <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:
> We're running our server quite happily on OI, currently on entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1
>
> Trying to install service/network/dns/bind always creates a new BE. Poking around the dependencies I see it depends on pkgs from 0.151.1.2!

The original repository for 0.151 was in /dev. When the next prestable
came out, packages were put in /prestable, so that people like you
could either stay with their current system and fetch things from
/dev, or change their repository to point to /prestable and update
their system.

For some reason, a decision was made to put the next prestable "back"
in /dev. Since that is where your repository is pointing, it will try
to get the most recent version of "bind" from there. I would suppose
that to ease testing all packages/dependencies must be at a specific
release version (not sure if anything has actually changed in every
single package from bind through zlib).


> Am I reading this wrong? Is there a workaround?

I'm not sure if the repository got overwritten, or simply newer
packages got added without removing the old ones. If the latter, there
may be a way to force the installation of the older version of bind,
the one corresponding to the rest of the system. (Or if there still
exists a mirror of the original repository somewhere...)


Jan