[indiana-discuss] pkg image-update ... ?

[James Cornell]

It's a snapshot consolidation of all packages updated since the last point
in time (Which is a build).  It is a differential approximation of software
installed current and similar to liveupgrade, contents are upgraded and this
varies between systems, but you can install specific software from a newer
branch if you want, as far as I know at least.

Say the workaround for the Python error with image-update a few months ago
was to do pkg install SUNWipkg and assuming that your authority is the
latest, it proceeded to upgrade itself.  I don't find it unreasonable to
assume this behavior wouldn't work on other software as well.

James

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Wilkinson, Alex <
alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was under the impression that a "pkg image-update" would update all pkgs
> on my 2008.11
> system i.e. in the same way "yum -y update" does. This does not seem to be
> the case.
>
> Im kinda confused as to what "pkg image-update" is actually meant to do.
> Can
> anyone enlighten me ?
>
>  Thanks
>
>  -aW
>
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