[OpenIndiana-discuss] Package perl-584 needs updating, but can't be updated (as seen from the package manager or pkg -u).

[Bryan N Iotti]

Thanks for the tip on pkg fix... I found I had a bunch of permission 
issues, some on Gnome, some on other parts of the system, and I was 
missing most of the license files...

I'm changing the permissions as suggested, maybe that helps some of the 
frequent core dumps on plugin-container and the like.


Bryan

On 05/ 8/12 03:22 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> In the aftermath of my file system adventures when updating to 151a4, 
> I now have one mysterious "problem" left.
>
> Well, it's not really a problem, just confusing and a little bit 
> mysterious to me, since I don't really know the IPS stuff that well.
>
> Thing is I got to the point, doing lots of "pfexec pkg -R /otherBE fix 
> packagename", where my system reported no serious problems in pkg fix, 
> and
> the package manager had a clean and consistent, and probably complete 
> view to present.
>
> Then suddenly a bunch of python-related packages were updatable, and I 
> let updatemanager do that.
>
> It set up a new BE, and after booting over to that one, I ran Package 
> Manager. I clicked around a bit, and finally selected All publishers, 
> All packages and View Updates.
>
> Then there was one update: perl-584.
>
> Now this guy cannot be updated, it cannot be removed, and it is 
> actually EMPTY and just has a marker saying it has been renamed to 
> perl-510.
>
> It's no problem, really, but:
>
> What determines if a package is reported as updatable??
>
> pkg -u shows this same package as updatable, so it's not just the GUI 
> application that's wrong, here.
>
>
>
>
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