On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:54:50PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:34:26PM +0200, Philip Kime wrote: > > > > On 3 Jun 2009, at 10:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> > >> It sounds like you switched from dev -> release. I'm not sure that > >> we support that particular change. It's possible that if one of the > >> packages from dev doesn't have a corresponding file in release. If > >> that were the case, you would attempt to retrieve the file from > >> release, but it wouldn't be there. The tar stream error occurs when > >> a tar stream is empty or corrupted. If you requested a file that > >> didn't exist, it's possible that you might get this error. > > > > Hmm. I was trying to update 111a -> 2009.06. Is this possible? The > > image-update got a long way but had problems due to a known thing with a > > straight CD install of 111a on 64-bit hardware (Bug 8409). The cure is to > > pkg fix the offending packages (like SUNWckr) but that's what I can no > > longer do. I can see SUNWckr on release if I browse on the web to > > pkg.opensolaris.com. > > 8409 says that you're supposed to pkg fix prior to image-update. If > you image-update'd first, I have no idea what state your system is in. > > > If I change pkg to prefer dev, it still fails fixing pkg:// > > opensolaris.org/SUNWckr (which means it's release, not dev anyway since > > my release repo tag is "opensolaris.org"?). > > Dev is pkg.opensolaris.org/dev, whereas release is > pkg.opensolaris.org/release. You should have had opensolaris.org > pointing to /dev when you performed the initial pkg fix. > > > Is there a way to pkg fix from my original install CD of 111a? > > According to 8409, you're supposed to pkg fix first, and then > image-update. If you still have a good 111a snapshot, try the steps in > that order, and see if things work better.
Just in case I wasn't clear, your publisher must be set to pkg.opensolaris.org/dev in order for the pkg fix of SUNWckr 111a to work correctly. The 111a bits aren't present in the /release repository. -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
