Hi Alex, Thank you very much. That'll help a lot. We're deploying with Chef so a custom package is definitely possible.
It would be really nice to see the nagios-nrpe and nagios-plugin packages that were in the OpenSolaris repo make it over to OpenIndiana. -J Sent via iPhone Is your email Premiere? On Aug 5, 2011, at 20:56, Alex Viskovatoff <viskovat...@imap.cc> wrote: > You have just run into the nasty side of IPS. > > I can see that this is going to be a problem. inkscape also can't be > installed at present because, pkg refuses to install the newer version > of library/gc that is at oi-sfe. > > I'll discuss what to do about this with the OI developers. The simplest > solution would be for them to remove peripheral packages like git from > the software consolidations. > > If they don't do that, another solution would be to rename the git > provided by oi-sfe, but that would go against the way the IPS developers > recommend IPS patches to be named. According to them, if a publisher > delivers the same package that the system does, it should use the same > name for the package as the system: the only difference should be the > publisher name. > > Hopefully this problem will go away when OI starts building reasonably > fresh versions of packages in oi-build, as appears to be happening with > cmake, for example. Then oi-sfe would not have to provide newer versions > of packages that OI itself ships. > > In the meantime, if you really need the newer version of git that's at > oi-sfe, you can build it yourself from the SFE spec. (I wish I knew why > pkg(1) will let you install a new version of git you built yourself but > not one that you get from another repository.) Instructions for setting > up an SFE build environment can be found here: > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pkgbuild/index.php?title=Pkgbuild_on_OpenSolaris > > I'm sorry I can't be more helpful. > > On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 17:32 -0600, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: >> What would be the appropriate way to clear the "This version is >> excluded by installed incorporation" error that comes up when trying >> to install Git 1.7 from the SFE repo? >> >> -J >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
