Forgot one point. You will have to grab the latest SFEspkg as usual: pkgrm SFEspkg pkgadd -d http://www.belenix.org/binfiles/SFEspkg.pkg
Regards, Moinak. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am happy to report more progress with spkg. > First I have published Build 99 of OpenSolaris core into the Belenix > repository. In order to safely upgrade your 0.7.1 installation, read on ... > > With spkg it is possible to do 3 kinds of upgrade: > A single package upgrade with dependencies: > spkg upgrade <package> > > Upgrade of the just the base OS: > spkg upgrade base > > Upgrade entire installed system: > spkg upgrade all > > Thanks to Snap Upgrade support from the Caiman project, 'base' or 'all' > upgrades create a new bootable ZFS clone and a new Grub entry and > activates that. So these upgrades are safe and you can fall back to the > older version by just selecting the Grub entry during boot. > > In addition spkg makes the upgrade process(base or all) transactional. > So you can interrupt a running upgrade by hitting CTRL+C and resume it > later using: spkg resume > It starts from the point it left off. Run spkg without arguments to see all > the options. > > So to upgrade your OS to OpenSolaris B99 execute: > spkg upgrade base trunk > > Remember it takes a while since it will download and install 414 packages > and you can interrupt and resume if you need to. > > Regards, > Moinak. > > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
