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Old 10-02-2017
Pkgadd failures with Solaris 11
I have some simple package installations that have worked in previous versions of Solaris just fine. I can install the packages, then install newer versions right over the top without error. In previous versions I had to specify the -G option during the installation in order for this to work.

Now, for some reason, that no longer works. I can work around it by adding 'SUNW_PKG_THISZONE=true in my pkginfo file, but it doesn't seem right to me.

Any thoughts on this?

---------- Post updated at 05:20 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:18 PM ----------

Quick update - and it is WEIRD. I found that if I have a request script in my pkgmap this problem goes away. I literally added a request script that does absolutely nothing, and bam, this problem goes away immediately. Thoughts?
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NAME

       install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

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       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       |			     |lation media)		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

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