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. 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 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
