On 05/14/19 06:33 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
I'd like to do an update from what appears to be 2017.10. In my retirement I
have gotten rather lazy. Solaris 10 u8 will never get an update, so no changes
there. That's where I do real work and it is on a private network.
OI is a moving target and I've been forced to use Win 7 and Debian 9.3 after
having previously occasionally used CentOS 6.x and no Win 7 at all. But i have
installed most Linux and BSD flavors in the past. So my mind is clouded by all
the different ways that distros use to do system updates.
Here's how the system is currently setup as best I can tell.
root@Hipster:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION
openindiana.org origin online F
http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/
root@Hipster:~# uname -a
SunOS Hipster 5.11 illumos-2727bb055f i86pc i386 i86pc
root@Hipster:~# cat /etc/motd
The Illumos Project SunOS 5.11 illumos-2727bb055f October 2017
root@Hipster:~#
I do not know if this is definitive. It seems to me looking at the pkg lists that "uname -a"
should return "5.11-2017.10" instead of just "5.11".
The wiki mentions various repositories without making clear which I should be using. The
current setting was the result of trying to install Firefox 60 ESR for which "pkg
search firefox" produced no results.
Although I find it a bit strange that `pkg search` did not find any
version of Firefox, note that on old installation it's not possible to
install or update new packages on their own as the incorporation is gone
(we need to keep the gate with sane amount of packages).
For such an old installation applies what Till wrote: `pkg update -v`,
reboot, and in the new environment you can install the package you were
originally looking for.
Michal
It is not at all clear to me what the update model should be. My instincts
based on experience starting with SunOS 4.0.X are to do the following:
1) refresh 2017.10 from the appropriate repository, which may or may not be
what is currently set
2) create a new boot environment and update that to the most recent Hipster ISO
version
Part of the problem is I used to do all this manually before beadm(1m) and
friends appeared and have only used beadm(1m) a few times and not since I did
the update to u8.
A search of the wiki using the wiki search facility didn't turn up anything
definitive.
So I have a few questions:
1) Will "pkg refresh --full" update just the installed 2017.10 packages that
have been changed?
2) Is there a documented procedure such as found here:
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Hipster
for updating from one ISO release to another? I lost a disk and did a bare
install of 2017.10. This system is my production desktop for access to the
internet. I do not want to follow hipster changes except bug fixes to ISO
snapshots. So it is unclear to me what my publisher list should look like
other than I need to add the SFE repository.
The procedure cited above appears to be somewhat specific to updating from
pre-Hipster systems images.
Thanks,
Reg
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