Hi Tim, I always create a new BE while updating and I'm back to my previous working configuration; I was just baffled by the removal of an active and working service.
And I know that postgres 10 is EOL, this is why I was updating the OS in preparation to the migration of my data to postgres 14. BTW, I cannot even install it right now on a old Openindiana installation because latest postgres-10 depends on newer incorporations. That said, I'll look up the freezing of the postgres package and see what happens when I try an update. Thanks for pointing me to the freeze feature of pkg. Best regards. Maurilio Longo. > Il 07/06/2023 08:47 CEST Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > > 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 no good way to do long-term support for outdated/EOL software, especially 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 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
