[OmniOS-discuss] omnios-b281e50: No solution was found to satisfy constraints

[Eric Sproul]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Olaf Marzocchi <lists at marzocchi.net> wrote:
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> Il giorno 03/feb/2014, alle ore 22:16, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> ha scritto:
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>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Kai Meder <kai at meder.info> wrote:
>>> OK, this is perfectly acceptable.
>>> How do I tell my OmniOS to update anything possible but stop whining about
>>> php's and possible future 'entire'-dependencies?
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>> You cannot do that.  A package (php-54) has declared that it must have
>> r151006.  The only way to upgrade would be to remove that package, and
>> accept that it will not be installable on the upgraded system.
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> Kai, I had the same problem with perl provided by ms.omniti and the suggestion was to take it out and compile my own perl.
> It seemed a burden, it took only 10 minutes. Now I also enjoy some advantages I didn't think about.
> I think php is about as complex as perl :)

It's even easier because there's an existing build you can look at:
https://github.com/omniti-labs/omnios-build/tree/omniti-ms/build/php-54

There is a single patch to fix a zlib issue, but otherwise it "just works".