[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] qemu package obsolete?

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On 2014-05-06 17:10, Jim Klimov wrote:
>    I am now fighting pkg to actually try and install some last available
> package... or am I barking up the wrong tree? For example, the oi-151a5
> version of the package does not install due to conflicts (delivers same
> files as current "system/qemu/kvm", including an "usr/bin/amd64/qemu" -
> though there is no link in "usr/bin" so the command is not found by the
> default PATH settings) - does it mean that the current "qemu/kvm" fully
> overrides the old couple of "qemu + qemu/kvm"?

To answer this part - no, the current qemu/kvm does not deliver the same
level of functionality as the older qemu package - there are a lot more
"usr/bin/{amd64,}/qemu-system-*" binaries in the older release, with the
latest one containing some content being @0.15.0-0.151.1.5 (oi_151a5).

It was however possible to first "pkg uninstall qemu/kvm" and only then
"pkg install qemu at 0.15.0-0.151.1.5" (simple "pkg install qemu" request
apparently found the marked-newest obsoleted package and cheerfully
said that there's nothing to update).

It is not however possible to install "qemu/kvm" now (at least not the
latest version) which is not currently my experiment's target anyway,
due to conflicts in keymaps, binaries (PROMs, BIOSes, the basic qemu
command itself).

I think it is a kind of sad mess the way it is now... unless the older
version does not work at all, which I will see in some near future ;)

HTH,
//Jim Klimov