[indiana-discuss] legacy package dependancies

[Bart Smaalders]

Josh Lange wrote:
> I recently installed blastwave on project indiana, and tried to pkg-get 
> mplayer. Not surprisingly, pkgadd was not aware of any of the system 
> packages, and the installation abruptly failed with a missing dependency:
> 
> ERROR: no info for SUNWcsl. Cannot install dependancy.
> ERROR: could not install required dependancies for CSWaalib
> ERROR: install of CSWaalib failed
> ERROR: could not install required dependancies for CSWmplayer
> 
> 
> After searching around I found several postings to the indiana list: 
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-November/003805.html 
> <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2007-November/003805.html>
> 
> and a fix:
> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7
> 
> 
> I updated my system with:
> pkg refresh
> pkg image-update
> 
> I got it to run, and exit without error. (I had to umount /lib/libc.so.1).
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, pkginfo still does not have any info about the legacy 
> dependencies (even basic ones like SUNWcsl):
> # pkginfo
> system      CSWcommon      common - common files and dirs for CSW packages
> system      CSWpkgget      pkg_get - CSW version of automated package 
> download tool
> 
> and blastwave still does not work.  Is there a special root I have to 
> install? if so, where can I pick it up?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
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We have not yet pushed new versions of the IPS pkgs containing
the legacy actions.  These are coming; right now we may push 79 first.

- Bart


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