[OpenIndiana-discuss] image-update fails with python mediator errors

[Philip Kime]

This worked and fixed the issue, many thank - this was a great help.
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Dr Philip Kime

> On 5 Jul 2022, at 16:56, Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 02:28:52PM +0000, Philip Kime wrote:
>> pkg update: The requested change to the system attempts to install multiple actions
>> for link 'usr/share/man/man1/python3.1' with conflicting attributes:
>>
>> 1 package delivers 'link mediator=python mediator-version=3.5 path=usr/share/man/man1/python3.1 target=python3.5.1':
>> pkg://openindiana.org/runtime/python-35@3.5.10,5.11-2020.0.1.0:20201014T142618Z
>> 1 package delivers 'link mediator=python mediator-version=3.7 path=usr/share/man/man1/python3.1 target=python3.7.1':
>> pkg://openindiana.org/runtime/python-37@3.7.13,5.11-2022.0.0.0:20220317T204725Z
>> 1 package delivers 'link mediator=python3 mediator-priority=vendor mediator-version=3.9 path=usr/share/man/man1/python3.1 target=python3.9.1':
>> pkg://openindiana.org/runtime/python-39@3.9.13,5.11-2022.0.0.1:20220626T102514Z
>
> The primary problem seems to be that update tries to install (broken)
> runtime/python-39 at 3.9.13-2022.0.0.1 instead of correct
> runtime/python-39 at 3.9.13-2022.0.0.2.  Not sure why.  To find the cause
> it would require several commands to run and it is inconvenient to do
> over mail.
>
> As a workaround you could try following:
>
> 1) disable man pages:
>
> # to actually do the change remove -n
> pkg change-facet -n -v doc.man=False
>
> 2) Now try again your pkg update command (please note that
> 'image-update' was obsoleted long time ago; you could simply use
> 'update' instead).
>
> 3) reboot
>
> 4) do the update again (it should update python-39 and some other
> packages too)
>
> 5) reboot
>
> 6) enable man pages back:
>
> # to actually do the change remove -n
> pkg change-facet -n -v doc.man=None
>
>
> HTH.
>
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> | Marcel Telka   e-mail:   marcel at telka.sk  |
> |                homepage: http://telka.sk/ |
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