[csw-users] pkgutil: Loop protection limit hit ... cyclic catalog dependency

[Peter Bonivart]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> What's funny about this is that i just upgraded another machine with the
> same catalog just fine. What's the proper way to nail down the culprit
> here? The boxes are almost the same: the one where i am seeing the
> problem above has a couple of packages less installed compared to the
> one that upgraded fine.

There's a long standing issue with some Apache Jakarta packages. If
you run "chkcat -e" on the catalog you will see this:

ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajccollect.
ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajcconfig.
ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajcemail.
ERROR! Cyclic dependency detected in package CSWajcnet.

Don't run it without -e (erroronly) as it will warn about every
package affected by these four errors and that's a lot of packages.
Most likely you're trying to upgrade one of those. That's why it works
on another machine that doesn't have one of the affected packages.

-- 
/peter