> > 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.
When I was doing development some million years ago _any_ code change, compiler change or whatever change meant a new version number. A change of timestamp could only mean a recompile at a later time with _exactly_ the same input. But I guess the times they are a changing... > 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. Think this nights discussion has cleared out a whole lot about the pkg command. So the only thing I have left to ask at the moment is; How do I downgrade my SUNWipkg-xxx-91 to .86 (latest timestampI)? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
