I usually set "overwrite" to avoid the duplication of packages: /var/sadm/install/admin $ grep overw default instance=overwrite
some nice guys managed to have this setting with every LiveUpgrade set back to "unique" ... so the first thing after upgrade is put it back to "overwrite" manually. Does this change the behaviour when you install vermillion? (you might want to pkginfo | grep "\.[2-]2 and remove the .<number> packages beloning to vermillion) Thomas On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:12:19PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > Ghee Teo wrote: > > For nevada 87, please do not install these packages (that i.e. ignore steps > > b and c ) > > b) # pkgadd -d . SUNWhalr SUNWhal SUNWcupsr SUNWcupsu > > c) # pkgadd -d SUNWsqlite3.pkg > > > > These packages are added to nevada from ON gate. > > Okay, but the problems are not with these packages, but with all of the > compiz packages, libsexy, id3lib, etc... (stuff under jds) It tries to > install duplicate versions of these packages as <pkgname>.2 packages. Why > does it not attempt to first remove the packages that are already on the OS? --
