In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] pkg update removes installed services...:
How am I supposed to proceed to update the OS to the latest available, while at the same time maintaining all the working services intact ?
Postgresql 10 was end-of-life November 10, 2022. Newer versions of postgres have been part of OI for a while. Upgrading your postgres-10 install to something like postgres-14 while both were provided by the OS would probably have been the easiest path. You can see what an update is going to do without doing it using the '-nv' flag with update. I usually look through that output before actually applying an update. You can 'freeze' (see pkg(1)) a package at a specific version, if that specific version is critical to your install and you're worried an update might take it out. Note that doing that may prevent updates without other steps being taken. You may want to go back to your previous boot environment (see beadm(8)) and plan an upgrade to a newer postgresql within that boot environment. Then, once you've converted to a newer postgresql series, you should be able to safely update. Rolling releases and a very small contributor pool means that there's no good way to do long-term support for outdated/EOL software, especially when there are newer versions that are still receiving updates. Tim -- Tim Mooney [email protected] Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure / Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
