Damien Carbery wrote: > I don't understand why the script removes these packages as they > are not listed in the script. Are they listed as removed in the > install log?
Yes: JDS Installation Log opened at Sun Apr 20 08:35:40 EDT 2008 Uninstalling SUNWcupsr running pfexec /usr/sbin/pkgrm -a /tmp/.pkg.7398.admin -n SUNWcupsr.* *** command output follows *** Removal of <SUNWcupsr> was successful. *** command output ends *** Uninstalling SUNWcupsu running pfexec /usr/sbin/pkgrm -a /tmp/.pkg.7398.admin -n SUNWcupsu.* *** command output follows *** Removal of <SUNWcupsu> was successful. *** command output ends *** Uninstalling SUNWhal running pfexec /usr/sbin/pkgrm -a /tmp/.pkg.7398.admin -n SUNWhal.* *** command output follows *** Removal of <SUNWhal> was successful. *** command output ends *** Uninstalling SUNWhalr running pfexec /usr/sbin/pkgrm -a /tmp/.pkg.7398.admin -n SUNWhalr.* *** command output follows *** Removal of <SUNWhalr> was successful. *** command output ends *** Starting installation of jds at Sun Apr 20 08:36:14 EDT 2008 running mkdir -p /tmp/install_jds_7398.dir *** command output follows *** *** command output ends *** > WRT the duplicate packages from the jds dir, is there a > jds/.remove-always file? It should just contain one line: SUNW* Yep: $ cat jds/.remove-always SUNW* In the log, for example: Installing package SUNWjds-registration running pfexec /usr/sbin/pkgadd -a /tmp/.pkg.7398.admin -n -d /tmp/install_jds_7 398.dir SUNWjds-registration *** command output follows *** This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and version of a package which is already installed. This installation will attempt to overwrite this package. Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Installation of <SUNWjds-registration.2> was successful. *** command output ends *** It doesn't bother to try and remove the previous package. I now have the following ".2" packages on my system: SUNWmysql-python.2 SUNWpysqlite.2 SUNWpython-imaging.2 SUNWpython-setuptools.2 SUNWpython-twisted.2 SUNWpython-xdg.2 SUNWpython-zope-interface.2 SUNWrdesktop.2 SUNWrrdtool.2 SUNWsexy-python.2 SUNWvirt-manager-root.2 SUNWvirt-manager.2 SUNWxdg-utils.2 -Seb
