On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:37 AM cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:14 PM, Stephan Althaus > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 02/25/21 05:49 AM, Judah Richardson wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:32 PM cretin1997 [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:28 AM, Judah Richardson < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Strong second to this question, in tandem with my pkg clean > equivalent > > > > > question on a previous thread. > > > > > FWIW if you use the pkgsrc repo, it's managed by pgkin, which > supports > > > > > clean (I think?) & autoremove. > > > > > Sorry for the lack of formatting; I'm on a phone. > > > > > > > > I don't track the mailing list strictly so I don't know about your > thread. > > > > Most of the time mails just redirected to my spam box and I cherry > pick the > > > > thread I wanted to answer. Somehow I ignored your thread. > > > > If you already have a solution, could you CC it to me? Thanks. > > > > > > No, I don't. No one answered my question in that thread. From my crude > > > understanding of what was discussed, pkg state is pretty much frozen > in the > > > boot environment (BE, which allows for system rollbacks) via ZFS > snapshots, > > > and the boot environment is managed via beadm. As a result of this, the > > > typical concepts of clearing pkg cache and autoremoving unused > dependencies > > > don't apply to OI, as each BE is its own self-contained entity. > > > > > > > p/s: I don't use pkgsrc. > > > > > > No worries, was just dropping that tidbit of information. IMO it's > kinda > > > hard to get up-to-date builds of many mainstream packages if you don't > use > > > it, so I kind of assumed most OI users did. I see that assumption was > > > wrong. > > > > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > Hello! > > > > These BootEinvironments are very handy when you get into trouble after > > some crude pkg fiddling. > > On Linux installations you are in a mess if something severly happened, > > with the BE on OI/Illumos and FreeBSD now (i think) > > you just choose the previous BE and destroy the corrupted one later - > > easy-peasy. > > > > It would allow selectable installations of OI with different package > > selections on one root pool > > > > - if you think you need to and take care and set the BE names when > doing > > something with pkg. > > > > I love it. > > > > :-) > > > > Stephan > > > > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > Yeah. I know this feature is handy. But this also means running > OpenIndiana is more costly than Linux on the same hardware, especially if > it's a VM. > Maybe, but Illumos itself gives the impression it was developed to be a host, not a guest. > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
