On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Shawn Walker <shawn.wal...@oracle.com>wrote:
> On 11/19/10 04:39 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> On 11/19/10 04:08 PM, Steven Acres wrote: >> ... >> >>> Specifically for Shawn: Isn't there somewhere that one of these folks >>> can file a bug report on this? Seems there is a dep resolving issue with >>> the pkg manager. >>> >> >> Dependency resolution is working exactly as it is supposed to. >> >> However, the error messaging is confusing and this is being worked on. >> > > Sorry, let me clarify. > > If I recall correctly, there were two *different* problems discussed in > this thread. One problem was about a dependency that wasn't installed for a > package and should have been. That was caused by a problem *in the package > itself* not in packamanager; packagemanager obviously can't resolve > dependencies that haven't been declared in the package. > > If you want to file a bug for the *package* missing a dependency, then do > so at defect.opensolaris.org. > > The second item discussed in this thread was a message about no updates > being available or a constraint error, and that's what my original response > was referring to. > > -Shawn > Thanks for that Shawn, fair enough. By "...error messaging being worked on", would part of that work be towards messages which offer a solution (i.e. "Stuff with Foopkg is broken due to brokenness .. do you want to nuke Foopkg [y/n]?")? -- Cheers, Steven ----------------------- Steven Acres Toronto OpenSolaris User Group <TOROSUG> Leader http://opensolaris.org/os/project/torosug
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