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When building SFE packages on Solaris 10u4 x86 sometimes pkgtool may fail to apply the package due to some attribute change, like in the example below. Then I just pkgadd it manually. Regards, Mark % pkgtool --download build SFExmms2.spec INFO: Copying %use'd or %include'd spec files to SPECS directory INFO: Processing spec files INFO: Finding sources INFO: Running pkgbuild -ba [...] SFExmms2.spec (SFExmms2) INFO: SFExmms2 PASSED INFO: Installing SFExmms2 INFO: Installing SFExmms2-devel ERROR: failed to install package: The following files are already installed on the system and are being used by another package: /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto <attribute change only> This is an open source package. Use and redistribution subject to license terms as described in the documents included in the sources. Installation of <SFExmms2> was suspended (administration). No changes were made to the system. Summary: package | status | details ---------------------------------+-------------+------------------------------- SFExmms2 | FAILED | The following files are already installed on the system and are being used by another package: /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int/auto <attribute change only> This is an open source package. Use and redistribution subject to license terms as described in the documents included in the sources. Installation of <SFExmms2> was suspended (administration). No changes were made to the system. % # pkgadd -d . SFExmms2 ... This message posted from opensolaris.org