[indiana-discuss] [xen-discuss] pkgrm on 2008.05 broken?

[Laszlo (Laca) Peter]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:28 -0700, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> [ Redirecting to indiana-discuss as this isn't related to xVM. ]
> 
> > Can anyone confirm that there is insufficient information installed in 2008.05 for pkgrm to remove packages?
> >
> > All of my attempts are met with "unable to change current working directory to </var/sadm/pks/BLAH/install>, and indeed these directories are missing.
> 
> Which packages are you trying to remove using pkgrm(1M)?  Packages
> installed via IPS can be removed using "pkg uninstall" but pkgrm can
> only remove packages that were previously added using pkgadd(1M).

That said, there _are_ problems with the SVr4 package tools, see
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1689

Laca