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 problems :
1- Never miss an update. Missing an update increases your
chances of breaking the system on next update.
2- You can't install a package if your system is out of date.
This means that if you chose to not update the system, for
example because of a known problematic package, you won't
be able to install new software until that package is fixed.
A workaround would be to pin that package to its current
version so that it doesn't get updated, and unpin it once
it gets fixed on next update (but see 1 about missing
updates)
Out of curiosity, does this also apply to OI ?
-- Yassine
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Hello!
We have "Boot environments"
On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot.
*if* there is something broken, you can easily choose the previous BE in
the boot menu and you're back to the previous state of the operating
system. That's really easy,
i currently have some BEs on my server:
$ beadm list
BE Active Mountpoint Space Policy Created
openindiana-2021:03:11 - - 24.41M static 2021-03-11 10:10
openindiana-2021:03:19 - - 25.73M static 2021-03-19 08:57
openindiana-2021:03:26 - - 21.64M static 2021-03-26 23:29
openindiana-2021:03:27 - - 26.07M static 2021-03-29 11:52
openindiana-2021:04:11 - - 25.88M static 2021-04-11 20:04
openindiana-2021:04:20 NR / 58.24G static 2021-04-20 11:21
.. and i could switch forth and back just as i like to :-)
NO problems with updates that raise some sort of concern!
Stephan
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