2008/7/1 Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, that's what I was ranting(*) about in the first place. How can I know >>> what version to install? It's not very well documented. And if I have >>> 2008.05 based on snv_86 then isn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] the version delivered >>> with that from the beginning? Or are you reusing the version numbers after >>> an upgrade? >> >> We're not reusing the version numbers per-se but rather we're changing >> the timestamp which is the lowest part of the version number. This >> allows us to publish a version of a package for an earlier build. In >> the case of SUNWipkg, this is relatively simple to do. >> >> With respect to determining which version of SUNWipkg you have, usually >> I would suggest running "pkg list SUNWipkg" and see whether the command >> reports that an update is available - look for a 'u' character under >> the UFIX field. Unfortunately, this command will report an update is >> available even if the only update is one with a higher build number. >> However, you can always just rerun >> >> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg@<version> >> >> where <version> is the version printed by "pkg list SUNWipkg" and if >> there is a newer timestamped version, it will update to that. > > but what does a new user do with this ?
In the future there will be a gui update manager and of course we already have the graphical package manager. However, if you have specific ideas as to how the cli interface could be improved, please send them to pkg-discuss. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
