[csw-maintainers] remove openldap not possible with pkg-get and pkgutil

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Rupert,

Am 19.07.2009 um 16:11 schrieb rupert THURNER:
> i was testing the new source code packages, and i did not pay enough
> attention when upgrading. after doing a
>
> pkgutil -t http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing -i subversion
> pkgutil -t http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing -i mercurial
>
> subversion was insisting on finding /opt/csw/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0,
> while only /opt/csw/lib/libldap-2.4.so.0 was available. somehow
> openldap got upgraded to
> openldap_rt-2.4.16,REV=2009.06.29-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz from
> testing.

Well, if you install from testing pkgutil thinks that *all* packages  
from testing
within the dependency tree should be updated. However, OpenLDAP is not
finished yet and was put there for some very specific tests and not for
general use.

> i tried to remove it or downgrade it, but it did not work with
> pkgutil, and pkg-get.
>
> # pkgutil -r CSWoldaprt
> Parsing catalog, may take a while...
> Looking at installed CSW packages...
> Examining dependencies for:
>  CSWoldaprt (in use)
>  CSWlibnet (in use)
>  CSWsasl (in use)
>  CSWossl (remove)
>  CSWbdb4 (remove)
>  CSWossldevel (remove)
>  CSWosslutils (remove)
>  CSWosslrt (in use)
>  CSWcacertificates (remove)
>  CSWcswclassutils (in use)
>  CSWcommon (in use)
> 5 packages to remove. Do you want to continue? [Y,n]
>
>
> # pkg-get -r CSWoldaprt
>
> WARNING:  the remove option is not very intelligent.
> If there are multiple versions of a package with the same
> PKG style name, it will remove the first one it can
> (will continue in 5 seconds)
> Starting remove operations now...
>
> ERROR: no matching SysV PKG found.
> CSWoldaprt CSWoldaprt
> (either you mistyped it, or you need to updatecatalog, or
>  it isnt available for your OSREV yet)
>
> then i used pkgrm and pkgutil -u to install it again and it worked.
>
>
> so i wonder:
> * why oldap gets upgraded

Please see my comment above.

> * how to remove / downgrade packages

In this case you can try to force-sync with -S from pkg-get.


Best regards and sorry for the inconvenience

   -- Dago