[indiana-discuss] upgrading to an older release

[Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer]

Not sure I understand the question - but it means
upgrade the named BE to snv_109 (assuming that the
BE was at a lower revision - I've not actually
tried it the other way around).



Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote:
> Would this install your existing packages from 109?
> 
> Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
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