[indiana-discuss] upgrading to an older release

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:14 AM, W. Wayne Liauh
> <wp at hawaiilinux.us> wrote:
> > This is what I meant (abstractly speaking): zpool
> send 109@ => beadm destroy 109 => pfexec pkg -R /mnt
> install entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.108 => (optionally)
> zpool recv 109@
> 
> You mean something similar to debootstrap or "yum
> install
> --installroot" on Linux?
> Wouldn't that create a "new" install, without any old
> data?
> 
> Testing it goes something like this:
> 
> # zfs create rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-6
> # zfs set canmount=noauto rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-6
> # zfs set mountpoint=/a rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-6
> # zfs mount rpool/ROOT/opensolaris-6
> # pkg image-create -p
> opensolaris.org=http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev /a
> # pkg -R /a install entire at 0.5.11,5.11-0.108
> PHASE                                        ACTIONS
> Install Phase                              1269/1269
> PHASE                                          ITEMS
> Reading Existing Index                           7/7
> Indexing Packages                                1/1
> 
> Problem is, it only install entire without anything
> else (might need
> to pass more packages to "pkg install", I'm not
> sure). Plus there
> should be additional post-installation tasks
> (creating vfstab,
> installing boot record, etc.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fajar

I have to admit that OpenSolaris, a la beadm, zfs, etc., is so far advanced relative to, and in such a different league from, anything that is imaginable in Linux, I don't think we can discuss this matter in terms of "something similar".  But I believe your concerns have been easily addressed with a "beadm activate" command.  This step is omitted in this discussion, as it is pretty much a given thing.
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