WARNING: The <SUNWuiu8> package "Iconv modules for UTF-8 Locale"

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Note the following warning when installing guest additions on VirtualBox 6.0.0 beta2 on Solaris 11.4

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## Verifying package dependencies.
WARNING:
The <SUNWuiu8> package "Iconv modules for UTF-8 Locale"
is a prerequisite package and should be installed.

However the installer only warns and seems to work. I am not sure whether this package is really required on Solaris 11.4 :

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root@venus:~# pkginfo SUNWuiu8
ERROR: information for "SUNWuiu8" was not found
root@venus:~# pkg search SUNWuiu8
INDEX       ACTION VALUE                                        PACKAGE
incorporate depend pkg:/SUNWuiu8@0.5.11,5.11-0.175.1.0.0.9.1162 pkg:/consolidation/l10n/l10n-incorporation@11.4-11.4.0.0.1.14.1
pkg.fmri    set    solaris/SUNWuiu8                             pkg:/SUNWuiu8@0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.9.1162
root@venus:~# pkg list -af pkg:/consolidation/l10n/l10n-incorporation
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
consolidation/l10n/l10n-incorporation             11.4-11.4.0.0.1.14.1       i--
root@venus:~# pkg list -af pkg:/SUNWuiu8
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
SUNWuiu8                                          0.5.11-0.175.1.0.0.9.1162  --r

I believe the 'r' flag in the IFO field above for pkg list indicates that the package is removed from the Solaris operating system or renamed.

Seems a minor issue, but I thought to report this ...

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The VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg has an explicit depend file :

cat SUNWvboxguest/install/depend
P SUNWuiu8 Iconv modules for UTF-8 Locale

This explains the (probably harmless) warning.

I am currently converting the SVR4 package into IPS by using a script to convert the package.
With the IPS dependencies this can probably be dealt with in an "IPS aware" way.