[indiana-discuss] pkg image-update works just fine

[Dennis Clarke]

OKay, so I have been sending emails all day to you guys in which I was
trying to figure out what to do and how to do it and why was I doing
this anyways ? :-)

well here is the good news my friends ... earlier today I upgrade the
SUNWipkg software to the absolute latest and greatest and I did that
blindly without thinking too much.

That went smoothly like so :

-bash-3.2# pkg version
d974bb176266
-bash-3.2# pkg install -v SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.91:20080620T101740Z
Before evaluation:
UNEVALUATED:
+pkg:/SUNWipkg at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080620T101740Z

After evaluation:
pkg:/SUNWipkg at 0.5.11,5.11-0.86:20080426T174940Z ->
pkg:/SUNWipkg at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080620T101740Z
None
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                    1/1     100/100     0.89/0.89

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Removal Phase                                    2/2
Update Phase                                   92/92
Install Phase                                  11/11
-bash-3.2# pkg version
0ae5e72ba7ee

Now maybe I wasn't supposed to do that and I should have just stuck
with something related to snv_86 or something like that. I really
don't know .. I just wanted to do what a John Doe average user would
do. Grab the latest and then upgrade to that.

Seems to work fine for me.  What were other people talking about ?  I
don't see a problem and .. I couldn't find one.

I then decided to just update the whole shooting match with this sort
of thing :

-bash-3.2# pkg image-update -v
Before evaluation:
UNEVALUATED:
+pkg:/SUNWlibsmbclient at 3.0.28,5.11-0.91:20080613T174525Z
+pkg:/entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080616T184243Z
+pkg:/slim_cd at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T182134Z
+pkg:/slim_install at 0.1,5.11-0.91:20080613T182617Z

After evaluation:
pkg:/SUNWlibsmbclient at 3.0.28,5.11-0.86:20080426T175140Z ->
pkg:/SUNWlibsmbclient at 3.0.28,5.11-0.91:20080613T174525Z
.
.
.
None -> pkg:/SUNWstmf at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T180217Z
None -> pkg:/SUNWpython-cherrypy at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T182501Z
None -> pkg:/SUNWixgbe at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T174340Z
None -> pkg:/SUNWural at 0.5.11,5.11-0.91:20080613T182505Z
None
DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
Completed                                557/557 15551/15551 1334.65/1334.65

PHASE                                        ACTIONS
Removal Phase                              3207/3207
Update Phase                             14966/14966
Install Phase                              6234/6234
Jul  2 04:01:27 aequitas pseudo: pseudo-device: lofi0
Jul  2 04:01:27 aequitas genunix: lofi0 is /pseudo/lofi at 0
A clone of opensolaris exists and has been updated and activated. On
next boot the Boot Environment opensolaris-1 will be mounted on '/'.
Reboot when ready to switch to this updated BE.
-bash-3.2# beadm list

BE            Active Active on Mountpoint Space
Name                 reboot               Used
----          ------ --------- ---------- -----
opensolaris-1 no     yes       -          5.29G
opensolaris   yes    no        legacy     3.50M
-bash-3.2#

So there you have it ... it did exactly what it should and I didn't
see a single problem.
No network lag or timeouts or anything like that.

see details at :
http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/OpenSolaris/image-update-woohoo.txt

so gee ... now what ?  reboot I guess ?

Before I do that .. is there anything new in the GRUB config for me to
look at? I have this machine set to run with a serial console and I
hope that is retained.

Dennis