On 02/05/09 12:12, Alexander Gnodtke wrote:
> Just wanted to say thank you for your help.
> In Bug 6098 there was a workaround posted:
>
> "Changing my preferred authority to opensolaris-dev makes the main UI report 
> the
> available updates *and* makes the eval phase succeed."
>
> Which also helped me and I could make the recommended updates.
>
> It still is strange that the preferred authority needs to be changed
> to perform updates. Will I have to change it again to perform updates
> of packages coming from other authorities?
>
>   
It is strange and it is a bug. However I have been unable to reproduce it.
Can you tell me what authorities you had when you could?

Padraig
> Alex
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Padraig O'Briain
> <Padraig.Obriain at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 01/16/09 14:41, Alexander Gnodtke wrote:
>>
>> The text in the Update All dialog which you quote is misleading. I have
>> logged
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6132
>>
>>
>> OK, thank you. It is just a minor issue but confusing if your new to this.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> After I updated to build 105 and logged into the new BE there were no
>> updates available.
>>
>>
>> The problem persists for me. I have booted the new BE. I start the
>> update manager. Lots of packages are shown which are updateable. I
>> press "Update All" and receive "Evaluate failed" "Error no updates
>> available for this image".
>>
>> Where do I start looking where something went wrong?
>>
>>
>> This sounds similar to
>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6098
>>
>> You might try using pkg list in a terminal window and check whether what it
>> reports is consistent with the GUI.
>>
>> Padraig
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Alex
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