The main issue is you are running a legacy SVR4 packaging command which is only supported to handle legacy packages which sendmail is not.
The supported way to remove a Solaris package under Solaris 11 and newer is:
In that particular case, you would also need to remove the smtp-notify package which depends on sendmail.
You can run this command to see if no other dependency is present on you machine:
Note that the -n tell pkg not to actually remove any package (trial run)
If you are fine with removing sendmail, simply run the command without the -n option.
I'm a newbie to Unix, but am working with some people that are more knowledgable than I, and we're all stumped.
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Hi all,
Is there any option to remove a package without removing the dependent packages....
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hey
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as failsafe is... (1 Reply)
Hi,
Need a small help
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system SUNWgzip The GNU Zip (gzip) compression utility
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