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

[Shawn Walker]

Aubrey Li wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Shawn Walker <> 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
> 
> It looks like I saw the similar issue:
> 
> $ uname -a
> SunOS aubrey-penryn 5.11 snv_110 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
> 
> $ pfexec pkg authority
> PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
> dev                      (preferred)  origin   online
> http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/
> 
> $ pfexec pkg refresh
> 
> $ pfexec pkg image-update
> No updates available for this image.
> $ pfexec pkg version
> fe52359f5636
> 
> Did I miss anything?

Very odd.  I haven't seen that on my local system to be certain.

You aren't by chance going through a proxy or something like that are you?

Try a "pkg refresh --full".

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker