Mary,
On 6/26/06, mary ding <mary.ding at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Tao:
>
> Tao Chen wrote:
> > Newbie question:
> >
> > I was upgrading from b39 to b42a, it complained about insufficient
> space.
> > I found an install option to choose what (not) to upgrade, or so I
> thought.
> > After "unchecked" couple packages, upgrade went ahead.
> >
> > Now I noticed those packages I unchecked are actually
> > removed from the system.
> > Ok, next time I will read more carefully what screen says,
> > I just didn't expect an "upgrade" would actually remove packages.
> >
> > Just want to confirm: is this wroking as designed ?
>
>
> This is working as designed. We allow user to customize upgrade
> to add
> and remove packages during upgrade. Since you unchecked those packages
> during customization, upgrade will remove them for you.
Ok. Strange, but it helps regain disk space, like what happened in my case
(although unintentionally).
> If so, there should be
> > an option to leave some packages untouched (no upgrade or removal),
> right?
> >
>
> Currently there is no option to allow this and there are
> issues. There
> is a couple of outstanding rfe's and bugs in this area.
>
> 4909825 - prevent downgrade of unbundled pkgs that are also bundled
This RFE summary makes my head spin :)
What if user decide not upgrade SUNWcsr or SUNWcsu or other core
> packages, there will be issues with the system after upgrade.
>
>
So there needs to be a way to take care of the dependencies during upgrade.
Thanks for answering and pointing out the issue.
Tao
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