On 6/27/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> 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. > > > How would not upgrading packages have saved space? An upgraded package > and the original take about as much space.
I had about 2.2GB free space in root partition which includes /usr and /var when I tried upgrade. Why did it complain insufficient space? I thought the possibilities are: 1) Temporary files; but shouldn't 2.2.GB be enough. 2) The upgrade saves some of the older versions of packages; I suppose it doesn't, but then I am not sure. 3) Upgrade adds new packages to the system. 4) Some packages increase in size with newer versions. Given those possibilities I thought about, I wanted to try not ugprading some of the larger packages that I don't actually use. >Just want to confirm: is this wroking as designed ? > > Yes/ > > >If so, there should be > >an option to leave some packages untouched (no upgrade or removal), > right? > > Why? What purpose would such an option serve? We do not support > mismatched > version of packages in general. > > > For a major upgrade install between releases, I agree it serves little purpose. I guess this is a corner usecase given that there's no convenient way to update selected packages in Neveda, it's either all or nothing right now, which I understand the reason. Tao -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20060627/fc7c89fe/attachment.html>
