Brock Pytlik wrote:
Prashant Srinivasan wrote:
Hello,

I'm seeing the following pkg behavior on a 2008.11 system(it's an EC2 instance actually, but that probably doesn't matter). The instance runs snv_101b. It has SUNWruby18 (from b101) installed. I'd like to upgrade SUNWruby18 to the version in the dev repository( from snv_111) that has the latest versions of Ruby/Rubygems. I changed the preferred package authority to be http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev and attempted to upgrade the package, but pkg does not spot any updates.

Can someone please point out what I'm doing wrong here? (if it turns out to be a bug, I'd be happy to file it as well).

pkg and your system is working as expected. SUNWruby18 is part of the entire incorporation. That means you can't take just that package forward,

Thanks for the quick response.

hmmm . . . what does pkg do under the hood when I issue a "pkg install SUNWruby18" and it responds with "No updates available for this image. "?

It's not checking for a new rev. of the package, since that test would have resulted in the finding of an updated version. It couldn't have tested for the availability of a new image, since that test, in my configuration, would have lead it to find updates to the entire image. What does it do that makes it get back with "No updates are available for this image"?

that's roughly equivalent to dim sum patching, which isn't allowed under IPS. You can either wait for the next release,

Good to know that this feature is in the pipeline! I've had some Ruby users mention that they didn't want to do the image-update/reboot to update( though the aversion is probably more psychological than anything else ).

image-update your system to b111, or publish your own version of SUNWruby18 against build 101.

hmmm . . . for this instance, I'll just pick up the Ruby build from the SFWNV gate and install it on my EC2 instance. I'll look forward to the individual package update feature.


Hope that helps clear things up,

It did.  thanks again.
-ps


Brock


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