OpenIndiana Distribution

This is certainly related to the deprecation of Python 2.6.
Could you try update to an intermediate userland-incorporation? Latest Oct 2.

Hi,

Thanks for the tip. I have commenced the process, and am posting here merely to show the progress so far, and also because I'm leary of going too far down the uninstall rabbit hole. Please let me know if I'm on the right path or if risk uninstalling one too many packages,

Cheers,
James

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root@darkstar:~# pkg install userland-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-2016.0.1.7610:20161014T121330Z
Creating Plan (Solver setup): |
pkg install: No matching version of consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation can be installed:
Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation@0.5.11-2016.0.1.7610
Reason: No version matching 'incorporate' dependency archiver/gnu-tar@1.28-2016.0.0.0 can be installed
----------------------------------------
Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/archiver/gnu-tar@1.28-2016.0.0.0
Reason: This version is excluded by installed incorporation entire@0.5.11-2015.0.2.0
----------------------------------------
root@darkstar:~# which gnu-tar
no gnu-tar in /usr/sbin /usr/bin
root@darkstar:~# which gtar
/usr/bin/gtar
root@darkstar:~# man gtar

[1]+ Stopped man gtar
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall gtar

pkg uninstall: 'gtar' matches no installed packages
root@darkstar:~# gtar
gtar: You must specify one of the '-Acdtrux', '--delete' or '--test-label' options
Try 'gtar --help' or 'gtar --usage' for more information.
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall archiver/gnu-tar
Packages to remove: 1
Services to change: 1
Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No

PHASE ITEMS
Removing old actions 71/71
Updating package state database Done
Updating package cache 1/1
Updating image state Done
Creating fast lookup database Done
root@darkstar:~# pkg install userland-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-2016.0.1.7610:20161014T121330Z
Creating Plan (Solver setup): /
pkg install: No matching version of consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation can be installed:
Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation@0.5.11-2016.0.1.7610
Reason: No version matching 'incorporate' dependency benchmark/x11perf@1.6.0-2016.0.1.0 can be installed
----------------------------------------
Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/benchmark/x11perf@1.6.0-2016.0.1.0
Reason: This version is excluded by installed incorporation entire@0.5.11-2015.0.2.0
----------------------------------------
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall benchmark/x11perf
Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 'benchmark/x11perf@1.5.4-2015.0.1.0' due to the following packages that depend on it:
compatibility/packages/SUNWxwplt@0.5.11-0.151.1.8
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall compatibility/packages/SUNWxwplt
Packages to remove: 1
Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No

PHASE ITEMS
Removing old actions 81/81
Updating package state database Done
Updating package cache 1/1
Updating image state Done
Creating fast lookup database Done
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall benchmark/x11perf
Packages to remove: 1
Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No

PHASE ITEMS
Removing old actions 32/32
Updating package state database Done
Updating package cache 1/1
Updating image state Done
Creating fast lookup database Done
root@darkstar:~# pkg install userland-incorporation@0.5.11,5.11-2016.0.1.7610:20161014T121330Z
Creating Plan (Solver setup): /
pkg install: No matching version of consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation can be installed:
Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/consolidation/userland/userland-incorporation@0.5.11-2016.0.1.7610
Reason: No version matching 'incorporate' dependency codec/flac@1.3.1-2016.0.0.0 can be installed
----------------------------------------
Reject: pkg://openindiana.org/codec/flac@1.3.1-2016.0.0.0
Reason: This version is excluded by installed incorporation entire@0.5.11-2015.0.2.0
----------------------------------------
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall codec/flac
Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 'codec/flac@1.3.1-2014.1.3.0' due to the following packages that depend on it:
library/libsndfile@1.0.25-2015.0.1.0
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall library/libsndfile
Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 'library/libsndfile@1.0.25-2015.0.1.0' due to the following packages that depend on it:
library/audio/pulseaudio@1.1-2015.0.1.0
root@darkstar:~# pkg uninstall library/audio/pulseaudio
Creating Plan (Solver setup): -
pkg uninstall: Unable to remove 'library/audio/pulseaudio@1.1-2015.0.1.0' due to the following packages that depend on it:
gnome/media/gnome-media@2.32.0-2015.0.1.2
library/desktop/xdg/libcanberra@0.26-2015.0.1.1

As the message said, ("Reason: This version is excluded by installed incorporation entire@0.5.11-2015.0.2.0") ,
you should really uninstall 'entire' because it is locking both userland-incorporation and osnet-incorporation.
Further there are some inter-dependencies between those two, so they might need to be installed in pair,
yet there is no versioned consolidation package that bind them together, but 'entire'.

I suppose additional problem could be that /hipster repository deletes all previous states of OI 'snapshots' (ISO creation time), to be able to update to /hipster, so this is probably best fixed by updates in /hipster repo to make updates work and then freezing and making available updatable state of packages.