Tim Knitter wrote: > IPSers, > > For the opensolaris May release the install team is integrating snap upgrade which is comprised of a Boot Environment CLI, a C library to manage the BE's and a glue library to convert Python calls -> C for interfacing with the C library. This is the Live Upgrade replacement. See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Snap_Upgrade for more details. > > My proposal is to modify pkg(1) to make use of the Snap Upgrade > tools. So I am in the process of modifying pkg(1) to support the following scenarios:
> pkg image_update > - Take a snapshot of the BE before the attempted update > - Clone and mount the snapshot > - Update the clone > - If there are update errors: > ~ destroy the snapshot, unmount and destroy clone > leaving the live BE untouched. I'm wondering if we should have an option to leave the clone mounted and in place, though, for diagnostic purposes. Dave _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
