OpenSSH-sparc-3.0.2p1.pkg: /usr/local conflicting file

[Dost, Alexander]

That won't really help you. The second field in the pkgmap file points to
the type of the file to install. If it tells pkgadd that /usr/local is a
directory it will install a directory and kill your link. You would have to
change it to a symbolic link if this should work. There is no way to tell
pkgadd not to overwrite a link with a directory... The best way (as someone
stated before) is not to install conflicting files and continue without
creating /usr/local anyway.

Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tim McGarry [SMTP:tim at mcgarry.ch]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 20, 2001 19:19
> To:	Nicolas Williams; Dominique Frise; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject:	Re: OpenSSH-sparc-3.0.2p1.pkg: /usr/local conflicting file
> 
> These types of errors can usually be fixed by replacing the fields in the
> package map that set the owner group permissions to be
> ? ? ?, that way the Solaris packaging system sees no conflict.
> 
> 
> Tim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Williams" <Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com>
> To: "Dominique Frise" <Dominique.Frise at ci.unil.ch>;
> <openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: OpenSSH-sparc-3.0.2p1.pkg: /usr/local conflicting file
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:24:13AM +0100, Dominique Frise wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Trying to install the Solaris package I made after
> configure/compilation
> > > under Solaris 8.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Log of the package installation
> > > -------------------------------
> > > # pkgadd -d OpenSSH-sparc-3.0.2p1.pkg
> > >
> > > The following packages are available:
> > >   1  OpenSSH     OpenSSH Portable for Solaris
> > >                  (sparc) 3.0.2p1
> > >
> > > Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
> > > all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
> > >
> > > Processing package instance <OpenSSH> from
> > >
> </local/soft/pub/openssh-3.0.2p1/contrib/solaris/OpenSSH-sparc-3.0.2p1.pkg
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > The following files are already installed on the system and are being
> > > used by another package:
> > > * /usr/local
> > >
> > > * - conflict with a file which does not belong to any package.
> > >
> > > Do you want to install these conflicting files [y,n,?,q] y
> >
> > Here's the problem. Whether a package should include an entry for
> > BASEDIR, I'm not sure(*), but certainly you didn't have to install
> > "conflicting" files, particularly when the only conflict was
> > /usr/local/ and it already existed.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Installation of <OpenSSH> was successful.
> > >
> > > Now the problem I got
> > > ---------------------
> > > Before pkg install. /usr/local was a soft link to /local (ln -s /local
> > > /usr/local).
> > > After installation the link is gone and a new /usr/local directory is
> > > created containing only openssh stuff :-(
> >
> > See above.
> >
> > > Thanks for help,
> > >
> > > Dominique
> > > ____________________UNIL - University of Lausanne____________________
> > > Dominique Frise                    E-mail: Dominique.Frise at ci.unil.ch
> > > UNIL, Centre Informatique          Phone:            +41 21 692 22 21
> > > Rte de Chavannes 33                Fax:              +41 21 692 22 05
> > > CH-1007 Lausanne, Switzerland      URL:         http://www.unil.ch/ci
> >
> >
> > (*) Actually, packages should not include pkgmap entries for BASEDIR and
> > other relocatable directories - those should either be created by the
> > preinstall script if they did not exist or should be in pkgmap but
> > conditional on particular classes enabled by a checkinstall script.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nico
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