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

[Jon Tibble]

On 30/03/2012 16:08, Jan Owoc wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Chris Ridd<chrisridd at mac.com>  wrote:
>>>> 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...)
>>
>> Updating to 0.151.1.2 from /dev and rebooting is an option. Or should I be changing my publisher to something more reliable?
>
> There is (currently) no "stable" release of OI. Your choices are to
> stay with whatever system you happened to install (it works!), or
> update to the most recent "pre-stable" release. I'm unable to find
> anything newer/more stable than this:
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a_prestable1+Release+Notes
>
> After refreshing the repositories with "pkg refresh --full", you may
> or may not need to first update pkg ("pkg install -v
> pkg:/package/pkg") before doing the full system upgrade (I did when
> going from 151a to 151a-pre0).
>
> Jan
>
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There was no history rewriting (whatever that is supposed to mean), 
later versions are added to the repo with nothing being taken away.
The /dev repo is the most reliable for OI currently.

If you don't want to update then use:

pkg install blah at 0.5.11-0.151.1.1

JT