[indiana-discuss] upgrading to an older release

[Yiannis Mavroukakis]

Blargh no joy.

pfexec pkg -R /mnt install entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.109
No updates available for this image.  

Y.


Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer wrote:
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> 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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