[rescue] OK, this got me there!!! Re: Solaris 11 package conflicts

[Jerry Kemp]

Nope, thanks for posting this.

I've seen it before, but just never had a big enough fire to push forward thru 
it to a resolution.

Not that I am taking your situation lightly, but it is always more fun when the 
fire being fought is someone else's fire and not your own.

As a follow up, please post/share if 'forcing the issue' here ends up causing 
any additional problems or issues.   At $WORK, this life, and the past few, SOP 
is to leave the system perl (&& python) alone, and go module crazy with the 
in-house one.

Have a great holiday weekend!!!

Jerry



On 08/30/17 05:52 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 08/30/17 18:13, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> solaris11vm /root 59 # pkg change-facet version-lock.runtime/perl-512=false
>>
>> solaris11vm /root 60 # pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.runtime/perl-512=false
>
> Aha!  THIS did the trick.  Ironically I'm pretty sure I'd already done
> this for some other package i needed to update ...   OpenSSL, I think
> ...  I'm not sure why I didn't think of trying it on Perl, except that I
> didn't realize it was the same problem.  I now have both perl-512 and
> perl-522 installed, and the tools that want modules included only with
> perl-522 are happy, and update-manager SHOULD stop nagging me that it's
> unable to update.
>
> The amusing part of this is that it didn't need to uninstall perl-512 to
> accomplish the update *anyway* ...