Solaris 11 remove the old "entire"

Question

pkg list -af entire
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
entire                                            0.5.11-0.175.2.11.0.5.0    i--
entire                                            0.5.11-0.175.2.10.0.5.0    ---
entire                                            0.5.11-0.175.2.9.0.5.0     ---
entire                                            0.5.11-0.175.2.8.0.4.0     ---
entire                                            0.5.11-0.175.2.7.0.4.0     ---
entire                                            0.5.11-0.175.2.0.0.42.0    ---

Those "entires" are old, except, of course, the first,is it possible to remove them with the pkg command?

Answer 1

They're not all installed. To "remove" them, don't use the -af flag to pkg list.

From the Solaris pkg man page:

...

list [-Hafnsuv] [-g path_or_uri ...] [--no-refresh] [pkg_fmri_pattern ...]

...

With -f and -a, list all versions of all packages for all variants regardless of incorporation constraints or installed state. ...

Because you're using the -af flags, you're seeing every version available from any of your publishers.