[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004301]: pkgutil -u stops exits with unresolvable dependencies in the catalog

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4301 
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Reported By:                flod
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4301
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2010-02-23 04:49 CET
Last Modified:              2010-02-23 09:15 CET
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Summary:                    pkgutil -u stops exits with unresolvable
dependencies in the catalog
Description: 
If any of the installed packages has an unresolvable in the catalog,
pkgutil -u will exit with:
Package <name> not in catalog...exiting.

Systems can now only be updated manually with
pkgutil -u <package>
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 (0007491) bonivart (manager) - 2010-02-23 09:15
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4301#c7491 
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Yes, it's impossible to resolve the dependency chain if the catalog is
broken. What do you suggest I do? The system can not work without its
dependencies anyway so what's the point of going forward even though a
problem has been detected?

What we do in these cases (http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4282) is to
get the package fixed. I think I
know who this might belong to, I will poke him. :-)