[OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive errors upgrading from OI151a7 to OI151a8???

Hans J. Albertsson hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se
Thu Nov 14 10:31:02 UTC 2013


Because this is the way suggested in a wiki entry for trouble shooting 
upgrade issues.

I tried your form, too, of course.

Not much difference.

Problem with your remedy is the sheer number of things to remove.
I was hoping this might be some obvious problem with "biting over too 
much" with some easily implemented remedy to avoid the troublesome bits.


On 2013-11-14 10:45, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> if you're trying to do an upgrade, why are you stating explicit packages
> (and version) that you want to install?
>
> why not use "pfexec pkg update --no-refresh -nv"
>
> if there is a fault with updating to a specific package, you could try
> removing the package, disabling a publisher or marking the package as
> sticky so that it (and anything that relies on it) won't be updated.
>
> Jon
>
> On 13 November 2013 08:24, Hans J. Albertsson <
> hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
>
>> I discovered that I had opensolaris.org (the legacy version at
>> openindiana.org) active/enabled.
>>
>> Retried with that disabled.
>>
>> No significant change, somewhat fewer lines in the resulting log, but
>> still the same complaints about
>>
>>
>>
>>    No suitable version of required package pkg://openindiana.org/
>> SUNWlang-ja-extra at 0.5.11,5.11-0.133:20120114T210906Z found:
>>      Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/SUNWlang-ja-extra@0.5.11,5.11-
>> 0.133:20120114T210906Z
>>      Reason:  All acceptable versions of 'require' dependency on
>> pkg:/system/locale/ja-extra at 0.5.11,5.11-0.133 are obsolete
>>
>>
>> and similar for lots of packages in various parts of the OS. About 700 or
>> so complaints.
>>
>>
>> On 2013-11-12 13:41, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>>
>>> I first tried a simple upgrade in the package manager UI... and I got an
>>> error regarding pysqlite-24, which was formulated in such a way that I
>>> decided to remove that package.
>>>
>>> Then I tried
>>> hans at klaus%69%12:38> pkg publisher
>>> PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
>>> openindiana.org                       origin   online
>>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/
>>> sfe                                   origin   online
>>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe/
>>> sfe-encumbered                        origin   online
>>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered/
>>> opensolaris.org          (non-sticky) origin   online
>>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/legacy/
>>> solaris                  (non-sticky, disabled) origin   online
>>> http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
>>> solarisstudio            (non-sticky, disabled) origin   online
>>> https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
>>> ha-cluster               (non-sticky, disabled) origin   online
>>> https://pkg.oracle.com/ha-cluster/release/
>>>
>>>
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