[indiana-discuss] upgrading to an older release

[Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer]

What I have done in the past is something like:

	beadm create snv_109
	beadm mount snv_109 /mnt
	pkg -R /mnt install entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.109

which appeared to work for me.



Brian Ruthven - Sun UK wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I follow your question, but I think it is this:
> 
> You are currently running snv_107 and wish to update.
> The latest available is snv_111, but you cannot update to it (due to 
> known bugs).
> So, you want to update to a release which is not the current latest, but 
> snv_109.
> 
> I don't believe there is a way of doing this currently. The "pkg 
> image-create" command specifically updates to the latest available, and 
> has no selection option to specify what to install. Personally, I would 
> like to see this too, so I think it's worth logging an RFE for it if one 
> doesn't already exist.
> 
> Brian
> 
> Luca Morettoni wrote:
>> Hi guys, one of Italian user group friend need to update his 
>> opensolaris installation (running snv_107) to an older release, like 
>> snv_109 because the latest has some bugs for him.
>> Any hints to do this taks?
>