[rescue] Solaris 11 package conflicts

[Jerry Kemp]

Hello Phil,

Disclaimer - I don't know that I have a direct, "this will fix it" answer, and 
in lieu of that, here are a few suggestions.  I'm sure that you have probably 
come up with some (or possibly all), but minimally, its all food for thought.


*) uninstall 5.12 then install 5.22

Yep, I know that this is the stupid 'master of the obvious' reply, but trying to 
be complete.



*) pkg man page entry discussing conflicting package installation

	Example 27 Switch Conflicting Package Installation



        In  the  case  of  two  conflicting  packages,  change which package is
        installed. Suppose package A depends on either package B or package  C,
        and  B  and C are mutually exclusive. If A and B are installed, use the
        following command to switch to using  C  instead  of  B  without  unin-
        stalling A:


          $ pkg install --reject B C


*) pkg mediator parameter.  On Solaris 11.3 boxes, it ships with both SunSSH and 
OpenSSH.  Also, it ships with both the classic Sys V syslog and rsyslog.

I used the "pkg mediator"command to move back and forth from SunSSH to OpenSSH, 
and also from Sys V syslog to rsyslog on Solaris 11.x boxes.

<https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/pdf/E54793.pdf>

here is a reference Oracle document, page 25, that shows an example with the (2) 
ssh applications.   May possibly be of use to you with your Perl issue.


*) open a trouble ticket with Oracle.  If this is a $WORK system.



*) and lastly, just leave the system perl alone.

The system installed perl, and python too (check out what that pkg command you 
are running is), have some deep hooks into the operating system, and are 
typically compiled with the Sun Studio compiler.  The Sun Studio compiler a fine 
compiler, but not my favorite and I do not use it frequently.

On the perl side, one of the most visible thing uniquely supported by the system 
perl is the 'kstat' facility, and there are others, but just in short, because 
myself and end users do lots of perl thing, and need/use lots of perl modules 
and customizations, I just leave the system perl alone.

All the in-house development stuff, and perl items + modules used and customized 
is a home grown perl in /usr/local .  Perl is an easy compile on Solaris, 
(although the 'make test' seems takes a while) and pushing out an in-house perl 
has saved me a lot of grief thru the years, vs messing with the system perl. 
You can also update/upgrade an in-house grown perl as frequently as you deem 
necessary.


Hope that there is something in here that helps, or minimally provides some 
'food for thought'.

Jerry




On 08/29/17 09:27 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Solaris 11.3 installs Perl 5.12
> (pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-512@5.12.5,5.11-0.175.3.0.0.30.0).  I'd like
> to update this to Perl 5.22, but when I try, I get the following:
>
> asgard:root:~:5 # pkg install
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-522@5.22.1,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.122.0:20170510T193143Z
> Creating Plan (Checking for conflicting actions): \
> pkg install: The requested change to the system attempts to install
> multiple actions
> for link 'usr/perl5/man' with conflicting attributes:
>
>     1 package delivers 'link mediator=perl mediator-priority=vendor
> mediator-version=5.22 path=usr/perl5/man target=5.22/man':
>
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-522@5.22.1,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.122.0:20170510T193143Z
>     1 package delivers 'link path=usr/perl5/man target=5.12/man':
>
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-512@5.12.5,5.11-0.175.3.0.0.30.0:20150821T171525Z
>
> These packages may not be installed together.  Any non-conflicting set may
> be, or the packages must be corrected before they can be installed.
>
> The requested change to the system attempts to install multiple actions
> for link 'usr/perl5/bin' with conflicting attributes:
>
>     1 package delivers 'link mediator=perl mediator-priority=vendor
> mediator-version=5.22 path=usr/perl5/bin target=5.22/bin':
>
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-522@5.22.1,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.122.0:20170510T193143Z
>     1 package delivers 'link path=usr/perl5/bin target=5.12/bin':
>
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-512@5.12.5,5.11-0.175.3.0.0.30.0:20150821T171525Z
>
> These packages may not be installed together.  Any non-conflicting set may
> be, or the packages must be corrected before they can be installed.
>
> The requested change to the system attempts to install multiple actions
> for link 'usr/perl5/pod' with conflicting attributes:
>
>     1 package delivers 'link mediator=perl mediator-priority=vendor
> mediator-version=5.22 path=usr/perl5/pod target=5.22/lib/pod':
>
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-522@5.22.1,5.12-5.12.0.0.0.122.0:20170510T193143Z
>     1 package delivers 'link path=usr/perl5/pod target=5.12/lib/pod':
>
> pkg://solaris/runtime/perl-512@5.12.5,5.11-0.175.3.0.0.30.0:20150821T171525Z
>
> These packages may not be installed together.  Any non-conflicting set may
> be, or the packages must be corrected before they can be installed.
>
>
>
> I've dug through document after document and I'm baffled as to how I
> resolve this.  Does anyone know a way to force the update?