thanks for clarification, James!

2008/7/25 James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>:
> Alexander Bubnov writes:
>> Hello, James!
>>
>> I have reinstalled SUNWtoo and the problem is disappear.
>> Thanks a lot for help!
>>
>> I do not know why rdesktop removes SUNWtoo...??? it seems a bug.
>
> I don't think it does that, or you would have seen "file not found" or
> some such rather than a version error.
>
> Instead, that other package you installed also depends on SUNWcslr[1]
> (or depends on something that depends on it).  Installing that other
> package causes SUNWcslr to be upgraded.  But, unfortunately, SUNWtoo
> also depends on SUNWcslr and has _not_ been upgraded in the process,
> so it fails.
>
> This sounds to me like a bug in the packaging system, and one that you
> should report.  The problem is that when a dependency is updated,
> there are cases where some or all of its dependents must be updated as
> well.  This libld.so.4 library is a good example of that problem.  It
> seems that the packaging system doesn't recognize this issue or
> doesn't handle it properly.  (If you're using OpenSolaris, then
> ips-discuss is probably the right mailing list to use.)
>
> In the meantime, as a workaround, I would run a full upgrade after
> installing any package.
>
>
> 1.  SUNWcslr is an SXCE root package.  If you're using OpenSolaris,
>    the bits it delivers are in SUNWcsl.
>
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/BR, Alexander

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