[indiana-discuss] upgrade facility

[Calum Benson]

On 12 Dec 2008, at 09:12, Nischal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got the OpenSolaris2008.11 and I wanted to upgrade 2008.05 to  
> 2008.11.
> I was really surprised that the GRUB didn't give me an upgrade  
> option like it does in fedora, ubuntu etc ( i am new to opensolaris).
> I am rather curious why this facility has not been added. Is there  
> any particular problem involved in adding this facility?

Upgrading requires access to a package repository that contains the  
new packages, but unlike most Linux package managers, IPS can't  
currently treat a CD as a package repository.  Therefore the only way  
to upgrade right now is to talk to a package repository over the  
network.

(I guess it might still be possible to put an item in the boot menu to  
achieve that, but it would still have to pull the bits over the net  
rather than off the CD.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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