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

[Gerard Henry]

Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> * Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> i am just about to upgrade some boxes running with current/ and on one
>> of those boxes pkgutil won't proceed because of a possible cyclic
>> dependency in the catalog.
>>
>> # pkgutil -u
>> Looking for packages that can be upgraded...
>> Parsing catalog, may take a while...
>> Loop protection limit (25000) hit. There's probably a cyclic dependency
>> in the catalog.
>>
>> # pkgutil -v
>> 1.8
> 
> In case anyone else is running into this issue, Peter pointed out a
> possible tweak which solved the problem for me. Upon setting
> maxpkglist=100000 in pkgutil.conf the issue went away and i could
> properly upgrade the affected machine.
> 

youre are lucky than i:
calypso-root% /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -u evince
Checking catalog integrity with gpg.
...
Parsing catalog, may take a while...
Loop protection limit (100000) hit. There's probably a cyclic dependency
in the catalog.
calypso-root% pkginfo | grep CSWaj
calypso-root%

gerard