Check the Installed Version of pkg:/entire

Understanding IPS package versioning and how versions of two different packages compare is often very important for troubleshooting package installation and update issues. See Fault Management Resource Identifiers and Package Version in Packaging and Delivering Software With the Image Packaging System in Oracle Solaris 11.4 for more information.

Use the pkg info or pkg list command to check the version of the pkg:/entire constraint package that is currently installed.

$ pkg list -Hv entire
pkg://solaris/entire@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.2.8.0.5.0:20150325T200338Z      i--

The version of this pkg:/entire constraint package indicates that this system is running Oracle Solaris 11.2 SRU 8.5.

The pkg:/entire constraint package constrains the versions of many other packages to help maintain a working, supportable image. See Constraint Packages for more information about packages constrained by constraint packages.

You cannot directly install or update a package that is constrained by the pkg:/entire constraint package. To install or update packages that are constrained by pkg:/entire, you must update the pkg:/entire package. For more information, see Cannot Satisfy Constraints. In some cases, you can remove the constraints as shown in Updating a Package Constrained by a Constraint Package.