[bug-notifications] [pkg_get 0002944]: latest version of pkg-get added bad flag to pkgrm

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2944 
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Reported By:                bfr-murphy
Assigned To:                phil
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Project:                    pkg_get
Issue ID:                   2944
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 fixed
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             2008-11-14 21:44 CET
Last Modified:              2009-02-27 18:10 CET
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Summary:                    latest version of pkg-get added bad flag to pkgrm
Description: 
Issue ID 0002173 was resolved by having pkg-get add the -G flag when
calling pkgrm.

Unfortunately, on Solaris 10 5/08 pkgrm does not have a -G command line
option.

This breaks trying to do 'pkg-get -u' because the pkgrm fails, and then
the pkgadd fails since the previous package version is still installed. 
The addition informatino below contains the output from okgrm when pkg-get
calls it with the -G option.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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related to          0002173 when -G flag is enabled in pkg-get.conf...
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 (0005414) phil (manager) - 2008-11-17 22:50
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2944#c5414 
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Are you saying that pkgadd now still HAS a -G option, but pkgrm, no longer
does?

If so, then if the prior, zone-friendly behaviour was

pkgadd -G blah... ;  pkgrm -G blah ...

what is the new zone-friendly behaviour? 

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 (0005415) bfr-murphy (reporter) - 2008-11-20 00:51
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2944#c5415 
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pkgrm does not have a -G option on a Ultra 20 running 'Solaris 10 11/06
s10x_u3wos_10 X86', or a T2000 running 'Solaris 10 8/07 s10s_u4wos_12b
SPARC', or a SunBlade 100 running 'Solaris 10 5/08 s10s_u5wos_10 SPARC'.

According to the pkgrm(1M) man page, and confirmed by actually running the
command on those systems, the pkgrm command does not have a -G option.

pkgadd on those systems does have a -G option.

I do not know if this was a change, nor do I know what the correct
zone-friendly method is supposed to be.  As near as I can tell on the range
of Solaris 10 systems (update 3, update 4, and update 5) I use, pkgadd has
always had a -G option and pkgrm has never had a -G option. 

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 (0005416) philadmin (administrator) - 2008-11-21 05:25
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2944#c5416 
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It may not be documented, but if it doesnt exist at all, then what is our
bug http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2173 about?? 

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 (0005424) bfr-murphy (reporter) - 2008-11-24 21:55
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2944#c5424 
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The first Note attached to bug 0002173 points out that pkgrm does not have
a -G option.

I think the issue is that if you run pkgrm from within the global zone it
will remove the package from all the local zones no matter what.  pkgrm
does not offer the option of not removing local zone packages when it is
invoked from the global zone.  Since pkgadd does honor the -G option in the
global zone 'pkg-get -u' removes the local CSW packages, but does not
install the updated packages in the local zones.

I don't know what a good solution is, but having 'pkgget -u' call pkgrm
with a -G option definitely breaks things both globally and locally.

The non-optimum solutions are either not having a -G option for pkgget, or
not installing CSW packages in the global zone. 

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 (0005471) phil (manager) - 2008-12-19 17:05
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=2944#c5471 
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pkg-get 4.0 supports separate PKGADDFLAGS and PKGRMFLAGS now. 

Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2008-11-14 21:44 bfr-murphy     New Issue                                    
2008-11-17 22:49 phil           Status                   new => assigned     
2008-11-17 22:49 phil           Assigned To               => phil            
2008-11-17 22:50 phil           Note Added: 0005414                          
2008-11-20 00:51 bfr-murphy     Note Added: 0005415                          
2008-11-21 05:24 philadmin      Relationship added       related to 0002173  
2008-11-21 05:25 philadmin      Note Added: 0005416                          
2008-11-24 21:55 bfr-murphy     Note Added: 0005424                          
2008-12-19 17:05 phil           Note Added: 0005471                          
2008-12-19 17:05 phil           Status                   assigned => resolved
2008-12-19 17:05 phil           Resolution               open => fixed       
2009-02-27 18:10 philadmin      Status                   resolved => closed  
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