On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/7/1 Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Well, that's what I was ranting(*) about in the first place. How can I >>>> know what version to install? It's not very well documented. And if I have >>>> 2008.05 based on snv_86 then isn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] the version delivered >>>> with that from the beginning? Or are you reusing the version numbers after >>>> an upgrade? >>> >>> We're not reusing the version numbers per-se but rather we're changing >>> the timestamp which is the lowest part of the version number. This >>> allows us to publish a version of a package for an earlier build. In >>> the case of SUNWipkg, this is relatively simple to do. >>> >>> With respect to determining which version of SUNWipkg you have, usually >>> I would suggest running "pkg list SUNWipkg" and see whether the command >>> reports that an update is available - look for a 'u' character under >>> the UFIX field. Unfortunately, this command will report an update is >>> available even if the only update is one with a higher build number. >>> However, you can always just rerun >>> >>> $ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg@<version> >>> >>> where <version> is the version printed by "pkg list SUNWipkg" and if >>> there is a newer timestamped version, it will update to that. >> >> but what does a new user do with this ? > > In the future there will be a gui update manager and of course we > already have the graphical package manager. > > However, if you have specific ideas as to how the cli interface could > be improved, please send them to pkg-discuss.
polite interpretation : shut up Dennis :-P dc _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
