Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: > Hi Kosta, > > There's really no danger in trying it anyway, as you will get a brand > new BE which is a clone of your existing one. If you are highly paranoid > or naturally cautious:-) you can create a new BE yourself, mount it and > run pkg image-update on it. And if everything will go wrong (which will not), you can always try the trick which I have been doing yesterday ;)
http://blogs.sun.com/migi/entry/broken_opensolaris_never best Michal Pryc > > Y. > > Kostas Oikonomou wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am running 2008.11, and I am considering upgrading to a later build, >> say 110. >> The problem is that I also have a few non-IPS packages installed. For >> example, Qt 4 from SFE. This is an SVR4 package that installs into /usr. >> >> If I upgrade to a later build using ''pkg image-update'' >> >> 1. Will the old (saved) boot environment contain my non-IPS packages, >> or will they be lost? >> 2. Will the new boot environment contain them, or will I need to >> re-install them? >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> Kostas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
