@Frank > Update All updates from all repositories on your repo list at the same time. Thank you, this was something I was not sure about after the bug that I encountered.
@Padraig >Can you tell me what authorities you had when you could? As far as I remember: * I had a clean install of OpenSolaris 2008.11. * I added the following authorities dev, extra, contrib leaving the default authority at opensolaris.org * Update Manager indicated that build 105 was available and I updated all packages * After that the situation was as I described earlier and as described in the bug report * I changed the default authority to dev and updated all available packages to 105 (again?) after that everything seemed fine One thing I am noticing right now is that I have two entries in my package manager for the same package. I have authority dev selected and for example package "entire" and "gcc-dev" are appearing twice. If I click on the selected i.e. installed package first version info shows me b105, if I then click on the not selected package version info still shows me b105. If I do the same thing for a different package with two entries and click on the NOT selected package first it shows me b106 and if I then click on the selected package it also shows me b106, not updating the information in the Package Name tab at the bottom. So this is definitely fishy. Hope this helps you track down any bugs, please let me know should you need more info. Alex On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Frank Ludolph <Frank.Ludolph at sun.com> wrote: > 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? >> > > Alex, > > The preferred repository is displayed when the Pkg Mgr starts up and its > packages are used if there are conflicts among the repositories in your > repository list. > > You need not change your preferred repo to update from other repositories. > Update All updates from all repositories on your repo list at the same time. > Or to update selected packages from a specific repository, select that repo > from the Repository drop-down, select the packages to be installed/updated > and click that button. Note that you can select packages from several > repositories in this way and then install/update all those packages at the > same time. > > Frank > -- Skype: al.gnodtke Google talk: gnodtke
