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/
