On 02/05/09 20:51, Alexander Gnodtke wrote: > @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. > > I believe that this is bug 6226.
> 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 >> >> > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090206/11613d53/attachment.html>
