[OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Dear OI community, I was never fond of Rolling Releases. I tried a couple times, it always ended in an unrecoverable system and me switching back to a classic LTS linux distro (I'm a linux user myself). It generally boils down to these two essential problems :  1- Never miss an update. Missing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 05/04/21 02:34 PM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Dear OI community, I was never fond of Rolling Releases. I tried a couple times, it always ended in an unrecoverable system and me switching back to a classic LTS linux distro (I'm a linux user myself). It generally boils down to these two essential

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Judah Richardson
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 7:36 AM Yassine Chaouche < a.chaou...@algerian-radio.dz> wrote: > Dear OI community, > > I was never fond of Rolling Releases. I generally don't use them either unless they're the only way to get decently recent packages. The only other rolling release I use is the pkg late

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit : Hello! We have "Boot environments" On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot. This is just XXKc''',,',dk0KKXN XXK0kc..';::...,''..,oO0KKKX

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 5/4/21 à 1:55 PM, Judah Richardson a écrit : Missing an update increases your chances of breaking the system on next update. Correct with all OSes. The bigger the gap between versions, the less reliable/robust the update will be. Not in my experience. I can go months without doing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Dave Miner
On 5/4/2021 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit : >> >> Hello! >> >> We have "Boot environments" >> >> On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot. > > This is just > ... > Is this done by issuing a ZFS snapshot of the whole

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 4. May 2021, at 16:27, Dave Miner wrote: > >  > > On 5/4/2021 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit : > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> We have "Boot environments" > >> > >> On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot. > > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Judah Richardson
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:51 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > On 4. May 2021, at 16:27, Dave Miner wrote: > > > >  > > > > On 5/4/2021 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > > Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit : > > >> > > >> Hel

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Lou Picciano
> On May 4, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Judah Richardson > wrote: > > On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:51 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > >> >>> On 4. May 2021, at 16:27, Dave Miner wrote: >>> >>>  >>> >>> On 5/4/2021 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

2021-05-04 Thread Judah Richardson
On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 12:05 PM Lou Picciano wrote: > > > > On May 4, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Judah Richardson > wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 8:51 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > >> > >>> On 4. May 2021, at 16:27, Dave Miner wr