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

[Aubrey Li]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Shawn Walker <> wrote:
> 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
>

The same result:

$ 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 --full
$ pfexec pkg image-update
No updates available for this image.

-Aubrey