[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris development package repository build 111, x86/x64/SPARC

[Shawn Walker]

Detlef Drewanz at Sun.COM wrote:
> David,
> right now I am on build 108 and I just decided to go for b111. So I ran 
> the updatemanager (on my for several days every day suspended/resumed 
> laptop). With that I only see that updatemanager offers me updates, 
> based on b110. Hmm... So I ran packagemanager, but see the same. So 
> logged out/in - no change. I restarted the updatemanager/packagemanager 
> - no change.
> 
> Now I rebootet the laptop and ran again the updatemanager and yes, now 
> it shows me updates, based on b111. Has anyone seen this too ? Why do I 
> have to reboot to tell the updatemanager to really look for news and not 
> look into his cache. Any comments or is this is bug ?

The updatemanager only refreshes every so often via a cron job for 
performance and other reasons.

If you want the absolute latest information about updates, you'll have 
to manually run "pfexec pkg refresh" or click the "reload" button in 
packagemanger to see them.

It sounds like there's an RFE here for updatemanager to have a 
"refresh/reload" button as well.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker