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Since people are discussing update issues for 151a9, I started looking
around for information on it. There's nothing on the wiki home page yet,
but I did eventually find
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/oi_151a_prestable9+Release+Notes
and the related JDS updates it mentions.
I have years of experience with Solaris, but I've only been running OI
for about 6 months, so I've never been through an update before.
I tried a
pkg update -nv
just to see what the output would be, and there were several conflicts
related to packages I had added from sfe or sfe-encumbered. Taking
some "pkg" related tips I had saved from others' posts on the mailing
list, I did
sudo pkg set-publisher --non-sticky --search-after sfe sfe-encumbered
sudo pkg set-publisher --non-sticky sfe
Leaving me with:
~$ pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI
openindiana.org origin online
http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/
opensolaris.org origin online
http://pkg.openindiana.org/legacy/
sfe (non-sticky) origin online
http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe/
sfe-encumbered (non-sticky) origin online
http://pkg.openindiana.org/sfe-encumbered/
Looking at the
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Upgrading+OpenIndiana
There are a few things I'm uncertain of:
- it recommends removing opensolaris.org as a publisher. I didn't add
that, so it must have come from the OI151a8 install I did. Should I
really remove it?
- it recommends using "image-update". That doesn't seem to be documented
in the "pkg" man page. How does it differ from just "update"? Is it
just deprecated syntax that's been replaced by "update"?
- this is a desktop workstation, so I've installed quite a few
media-related packages from sfe, and a couple from sfe-encumbered.
After I set sfe and sfe-encumbered as non-sticky,
the "pkg update -nv" had no conflicts, but I'm uncertain what that
means for the packages I've installed from sfe or sfe-encumbered.
- should I just remove all of them before I do an update?
- will the fact that sfe and sfe-encumbered are now non-sticky mean
that the updates that come from /dev will leave sfe packages on the
system, but in a broken state? Or, will the update automatically
remove stuff from sfe/sfe-encumbered if their dependencies are no
longer met?
Thanks,
Tim
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