[indiana-discuss] upgrading to an older release

[Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer]

Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote:
> Sorry Peter I'll explain. Say I am at svn_110, will doing
> pkg -R /mnt install entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.109 a) downgrade my 110 BE to 
> 109? If so
> will it downgrade the existing packages I have installed to 109 or 
> install the default packages
> for 109?
> 

Ah ha :-) And I've not tried the other way around (snv_110 -> snv_109)
and so have no comment - sorry :-(

Worth trying ?


> Thanks!
> 
> Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer wrote:
>> 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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