[indiana-discuss] Is the 2008.05 iso now based on build 91?

[Dennis Clarke]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> 2008/7/1 Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:08 PM,  <David.Comay at sun.com> 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 SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86 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